The city would charge a green fee of twenty-five cents. When the city finally bought ninety-six acres near TCU in 1922 for the first municipal golf course, it was front page news. Clip is from the February 4 Star-Telegram. The property is now Firestone & Robertson Distilling Company.īut what about golf for the non-country club set? Not until 1917 did the city begin to think about building a municipal golf course. Glen Garden honored former members Sandra Palmer and Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, who as young men caddied at Glen Garden, earning sixty-five cents a round. Membership was closed at two hundred in 1914. Like so many early courses, Glen Garden opened as nine holes with sand greens. Cattle Company ranchland and reachable by the Cleburne interurban line. Cobb of the nearby Cobb brick plant and O. In 1913 Fort Worth got another country club as Glen Garden was organized by, among others, produce distributor Ben E. ![]() Fort Worth Country Club survived into the 1920s before falling to development, but the River Crest course, built in 1911, lives on into its second century. ![]() Among the founders of River Crest were future Mayor William Bryce and candyman John P. So, they mutinied to form a new country club northeast of FWCC: River Crest. In 1910 some members of Fort Worth Country Club wanted a full eighteen-hole course. This map shows the golf course of Fort Worth Country Club north of Collinwood and Byers streets and west of Merrick Street. MacAndrew, who laid out the course, predicted that “when the roughness wears off, the Country Club will have the finest golf links in the United States.” The nine-hole golf course indeed opened in late 1903. ![]() Golf is a good old fashioned Scotch game, that looks unutterably silly to one who has never played it.” The Telegram described the sport of golf: “It takes an extraordinary hold of everyone who essays it and never lets go until the player passes to that land where the bunker is known not. The Telegram wrote that the golf links would not be laid out until autumn because “the hot direct sun of the summer makes golfing nearly impossible.” Chamberlin’s Ye Arlington Inn (burned 1894). In 1902 the Telegram announced that Fort Worth Country Club had been chartered to build a country club with golf links in Arlington Heights on the former site of developer H. But before Fort Worth residents could play golf, they had to get a country club. In the beginning golf in America was a game for the well-to-do, played at country clubs. Here’s a nineteenth-hole toast to the ghosts of some Fort Worth golf courses that have gone the way of knickers and niblicks.
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