Brookhaven Country Club

Brookhaven Country Club is a private golf and country club in Farmers Branch, a suburb on the northern edge of Dallas, Texas. It gives its address as 3333 Golfing Green Drive. This page covers the club as a whole, because Brookhaven is not one course but three: the Master’s Course, the Championship Course and the President’s Course, 54 holes in all around a single clubhouse. All three were laid out by Press Maxwell, and the Master’s was later redesigned by Jeff Brauer. The club was started in 1957 by Robert H. Dedman Sr., and it was the first club of the company he founded that year, known for decades as ClubCorp and renamed Invited in 2022. It still belongs to that company.

On the club’s golf page, the three courses measure as follows from their longest tees: the Master’s, 6,825 yards for a par of 72, with a course rating of 74.2 and a slope of 141; the Championship, 6,555 yards, par 72, rated 72.3 with a slope of 132; and the President’s, 4,467 yards, par 68, rated 63.3 with a slope of 107. Those figures do not match the hole-by-hole cards the club publishes on its pages for each course, nor the cards found in golf directories, as explained further down. The club calls the Master’s its most challenging layout, the Championship its most welcoming, and the President’s a course for all skill levels.

The first club of a private-club empire

Robert H. Dedman Sr. was born in 1926 in Rison, Arkansas, and practiced law in Dallas before turning to golf. According to Wikipedia, he learned the game from Byron Nelson, Ralph Guldahl and Ben Hogan, and in 1957 he founded the company first called Country Club, Inc. Invited’s own company timeline dates the founding to November 11, 1957, and says construction began on Brookhaven that year. Company histories published by business reference works tell it slightly differently: the young company bought 400 acres in Farmers Branch in 1957, started building in 1958 and announced the opening of its first club, Brookhaven, in 1959.

The idea behind it is what makes the club unusual. According to those same company histories, Dedman wanted three golf courses around one clubhouse rather than the usual single course, and he set out to sell memberships to what he called the “top 10 percent” of the community rather than the narrow elite that most private clubs of the time served. The club itself still describes its origins in those terms, as an affordable family golf and country club, and a bronze statue called “The Family” stands at its entrance. Brookhaven became the model for a company that, according to a 2019 article in the student newspaper of a nearby college, owned and operated more than 200 golf, country, business, sports and alumni clubs. Dedman died in 2002. His name is on several buildings and schools at Southern Methodist University, which he chaired from 1992 to 1996.

The company changed hands several times after him. Wikipedia records its purchase by KSL Capital Partners in 2006, a listing on the New York Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2017 and its acquisition by Apollo Global Management in 2017. The rebranding as Invited came in 2022. Through all of it, Brookhaven stayed in the group, and the club’s current pages carry the Invited name.

Press Maxwell, Byron Nelson and Jeff Brauer

Press Maxwell, who laid out the three courses, was the son of Perry Maxwell, the Oklahoma architect known for his greens at Southern Hills and Prairie Dunes. Born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, in 1916, Press learned the trade from his father, flew combat missions in the Second World War and, after his father’s death in 1952, kept the family practice going, flying himself from site to site in a small airplane, according to the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame, which inducted him in 1996. He was president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects in 1960.

The club adds a second name to the story. It says that in 1958, Byron Nelson worked with Press Maxwell on the Brookhaven greens, and that this was Nelson’s first golf course design project. Nelson, the Texan who won eleven tournaments in a row in 1945, was close to Dedman, and one company history says he chaired the club’s advisory board during construction. The 2019 newspaper article goes further and says one of the courses was the first designed by Nelson; the club’s own wording limits his role to the greens, and this page follows the club.

The Master’s Course was later redesigned by Jeff Brauer, a Texas architect. The club names him on the Master’s page without a date. A golf directory places the work in the early 1990s, and we found no primary source that pins it down. Two ranking sites also mention a renovation by Jay Morrish in 1980, which neither the club nor any other source we read confirms.

Tournaments, a famous junior and a pickleball boom

The most notable championship in the club’s history is the 1972 U.S. Junior Amateur, which the USGA and Wikipedia record as played at Brookhaven Country Club. Bob Byman won the final against Scott Simpson, 2 and 1; Simpson went on to win the 1987 U.S. Open. We did not find which of the three courses was used.

The club’s best-known product is Jordan Spieth. The Dallas-born winner of three major championships called Brookhaven his home course during his junior career, according to the American Junior Golf Association, and the club quotes him saying that it is “the one course I know better than any other.” He attended one of his first golf camps there, the club says. In June 2023 Brookhaven hosted, for the first time, the junior tournament that carries his name, a 54-hole stroke play event for 78 players on the AJGA schedule, and Spieth is now an ambassador for Invited. The club also says a team of its junior golfers won the PGA Junior League national championship in 2023, and it hosted the first edition of a youth fundraising event for Spieth’s family foundation.

Golf is not the whole picture. Brookhaven has turned itself into one of the largest racquet clubs in the region. In November 2023 it hosted the USA Pickleball National Championships, which moved there from California; the governing body’s recap counts nearly 3,500 players. The club’s renovation page now lists 68 courts: 36 for tennis, including indoor, covered and five clay courts, 30 for pickleball and 2 for padel, along with a renovated tennis clubhouse. The club says the complex received a 2025 USTA Outstanding Facility Award.

Three courses, three characters

The three layouts share the same flat to gently rolling ground, crossed by creeks and lined with old trees, but they are meant for different golfers. The membership structure makes the point: a full golf member plays all three, an associate member plays the Championship and the President’s at set times, and a third category gives access to the President’s alone.

The Master’s Course

The club calls the Master’s its most challenging layout, with ultradwarf Bermuda greens and “a design that rewards precision, patience, and strategy.” The club’s hole-by-hole page gives the following from the Black tees, with the men’s handicap index in parentheses:

• 1st: par 4, 332 yards (13). Straight, with trees down the left and a bunkered green.
• 2nd: par 4, 376 yards (3). A dogleg right where the drive should favor the left side.
• 3rd: par 3, 190 yards (15). Downhill; the club warns against going long.
• 4th: par 5, 508 yards (11). A three-shot hole with a bridge across the fairway and a green in four sections.
• 5th: par 4, 386 yards (7). A hard dogleg left around a bunker, to a green sloping toward the front left.
• 6th: par 3, 207 yards (5). The club’s signature hole, with a forced carry over water.
• 7th: par 4, 375 yards (17). A ridge splits a fast green.
• 8th: par 5, 527 yards (1). The hardest hole on the card, with a narrow green.
• 9th: par 4, 400 yards (9). Slightly uphill to a two-tier green.
• 10th: par 4, 416 yards (16). A long approach over a creek to a raised green.
• 11th: par 3, 195 yards (4). Uphill to a large, rolling green.
• 12th: par 5, 618 yards (8). The longest hole of the club, a dogleg left with trees on the left and a bunker short left of the green.
• 13th: par 4, 403 yards (12). A slight dogleg left, with a bunker and a tree guarding the right.
• 14th: par 4, with a bunker wrapping around the green. The club’s page lists it with the same yardage and index as the 13th, which looks like a copying error; an older card in a directory gives 423 yards.
• 15th: par 4, 358 yards (10). A sloping green where the position of the approach matters.
• 16th: par 5, 508 yards (14). A forgiving fairway and an undulating green.
• 17th: par 3, 194 yards (14 on the page, which repeats the index of the 16th). Another forced carry.
• 18th: par 4, 414 yards (6). A demanding drive and two bunkers at the green.

That card adds up to about 6,810 yards, close to the 6,825 on the club’s golf page. The same page rates the Black tees 74.4 with a slope of 133, against 74.2 and 141 on the golf page. With four par 3s between 190 and 207 yards and a par 5 of more than 600 yards, the course asks for length as well as accuracy; the greens, firm and quick by most accounts, ask for the rest.

The Championship Course

The Championship, which the club describes as winding through its largest trees, reopened after a renovation that began in early 2024. According to the club, the work included a new drainage system under the greens, a USGA-specification root zone, new TifEagle Bermuda greens to match the other courses, new collars, leveled fairways and tees, and new cart paths in places. It was not the first work on these greens: a trade magazine reported in May 2014 that the course, then called the Champions Course, was closing for the summer to replace its TifDwarf greens with TifEagle, enlarge them back to their original size and update the irrigation.

The club’s card for the Championship totals about 6,558 yards from the Black tees, with 3,237 on the front and 3,321 on the back. It opens with a par 5 of 514 yards, has four par 5s and four par 3s, and ranks the 8th, a par 4 of 415 yards, as its hardest hole. The 10th is listed as “4/5,” a hole that plays as a par 5 for some tees. A regional golf site that played the course in 2013 described small, raised greens guarded by bunkers, sloping fairways that kick balls toward trouble, and several risk-reward holes where a shot over the trees can set up a birdie.

The President’s Course

The President’s is the short course: the club recommends it for seniors, juniors and beginners and says a round takes about two and a half hours. Its card is mostly made of par 4s between 230 and 340 yards, with small greens, a creek and low branches in play. The club names the 9th, a slight dogleg right to a raised green with the clubhouse in view, as its signature hole. The figures for this course disagree more than the others, as the method section explains: 4,467 yards and par 68 on the club’s golf page, but 4,790 yards on its hole-by-hole card.

What it asks of you

For a visiting golfer, the choice of course decides the day. The Master’s is a full-length test in which the long par 3s and the water on the 6th will cost a high handicapper strokes, and the club’s own description stresses patience. The Championship is shorter but not easy: the greens are small and raised, so missed approaches leave delicate chips, and the trees punish a wayward drive more than the slope suggests. The President’s is the place for juniors, for a quick round after work or for anyone returning to the game.

The practice facilities are extensive. The club lists a double-sided driving range, a grass tee, a short-game area of 10,000 square feet with a bunker, launch-monitor fitting and teaching, and more than five PGA professionals. Its Drive Zone, a range with ball-tracking technology, hitting bays, games and an outdoor lounge, is also included in the non-golf memberships.

What golfers are saying

Brookhaven is a private club, and public reviews are scarce. In October 2026 one golf app showed averages of 4.6 out of 5 from 22 ratings for the Master’s, 4.2 from 19 for the Championship and 4.8 from 16 for the President’s, mostly without written comments. We also read a detailed review by a Texas golf site from 2013, short golfer comments on a review platform and a Dallas private-club ranking site. The points below summarize what recurs. They are other people’s opinions, not ours; nobody from Panxis has played the courses, and we name no one.

What comes up in its favor

• The choice of three courses of different difficulty under one membership comes up most often, with the President’s singled out as ideal for juniors, seniors and beginners.
• Greens are praised as fast, firm and true on the Championship and the Master’s.
• Old, mature trees give the courses their character, and comments describe the Championship as an old-school layout.
• The family side of the club, with pools and children’s activities, and the friendliness of members get good marks.
• Reviewers describe the club as good value compared with other private clubs in the Dallas area.

What comes up against

• The small, raised greens of the Championship and narrow landing areas between trees make it harder than its length suggests, and off-line drives are costly.
• Bunker sand was found inconsistent in one detailed review, thin in places, with steep faces.
• A reviewer who played in February found the Bermuda fairways dormant, so the courses can look and play quite differently in winter.
• On the ranking site, the course design, the food and the value score lower than the club’s tournaments and member services.
• Most reviews predate the renovation of the Championship, so the comments on its greens and bunkers may no longer apply.

Who can play

Brookhaven is private. Golf is reserved for members and their guests; the club says members are welcome to bring guests, with guest fees and restrictions that vary by amenity, and that golf tee times should be reserved in advance. Full golf members book seven days ahead and take part in the club championship and associations. Associate golf members play the Championship and the President’s on set days and times and book four days ahead. A President’s-only membership gives access to the short course on a similar schedule. Members also have reciprocal access to other clubs in the Invited network.

The club also hosts golf events and outings for companies and organizations, from a foursome to a field of 144 players or more, without requiring the organizer to be a member. Golf directories say walking is allowed, metal spikes are not, and carts and rental clubs are available. The club does not publish its membership terms in detail online; anyone interested is directed to its membership office.

Getting there

The club is in Farmers Branch, in Dallas County, although its postal address reads Dallas, TX 75234. It lies on Golfing Green Drive, in a residential neighborhood, about two miles from the college now known as the Brookhaven campus of Dallas College, according to the 2019 student newspaper article.

In a straight line, the course is about 2.7 miles from Addison Airport, 6.3 miles from Dallas Love Field, 10.5 miles from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and 11.8 miles from downtown Dallas. Fort Worth is about 30 miles away. These distances are measured on the map and not by road.

Membership and fees

Brookhaven does not sell green fees to the public. Membership categories, from full golf to racquet-only and social memberships, are described on the club’s own pages, and their cost is set by the club and changes over time. See the club’s membership page or contact the membership office.

How this page was made

The factual frame comes from public sources: OpenStreetMap for the location; Wikidata for the identifiers; the club’s website, on the Invited domain, for its history, the three courses, the hole-by-hole cards, the course ratings, the renovation of the Championship and the racquet complex, the practice facilities, the membership categories and Jordan Spieth’s ties to the club; Invited’s company timeline and business reference works (FundingUniverse and similar company histories) for the founding of ClubCorp and the 400 acres; Wikipedia for Robert Dedman Sr., ClubCorp, the U.S. Junior Amateur and the Texas State Open; the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame, the ASGCA and Foretee for Press Maxwell; the Brookhaven Courier, a college newspaper, for its 2019 account; Club & Resort Business for the 2014 greens project; the AJGA and USA Pickleball for the 2023 events; golf directories and apps (GolfPass, GolfNow, TeeOff, GolfN, Golfing Record, Hole19, Foretee, privateIQ) for cards, ratings and reviews; Texas Outside and Sounded Good Golf for reviews and rankings.

Where sources disagree, we say so. The founding is November 11, 1957, with construction starting that year in Invited’s timeline, while company histories put the start of construction in 1958 and the opening in 1959; directories give 1957 or 1959 as the opening year. The lengths and ratings differ from one source to the next: for the Master’s, 6,825 yards rated 74.2 and 141 on the club’s golf page, about 6,810 yards rated 74.4 and 133 on the club’s own card, and 6,879 yards with ratings of 74.0 and 127 or 72.2 and 133 in directories, apparently from an older card; for the Championship, 6,555 yards rated 72.3 and 132 on the golf page, about 6,558 yards rated 72.0 and 128 on the club’s card, and 6,542 or 6,535 yards in directories; for the President’s, 4,467 yards and par 68 on the golf page, 4,790 yards on the club’s card, whose listed pars add up to 71 although the club’s own description calls the 7th a par 3, which would make it 70, and 5,501 or 5,527 yards with a par of 68 or 70 elsewhere. This page follows the club’s golf page for the headline figures. The greens of the Master’s are described as bentgrass laid in 2002 by one directory, but as ultradwarf Bermuda by the club and by the 2014 trade article. The college newspaper calls Byron Nelson the designer of one course, while the club credits him only with work on the greens. The same article calls Press Maxwell a founding member of the ASGCA, which we could not confirm: the sources we found name his father as the founding member and Press as the society’s president in 1960. Press Maxwell’s death is dated 1999, 2000 or 2001 depending on the source, so we leave it out. One ranking site describes the club as member-owned, which contradicts the club and every other source. Two sites say Brookhaven hosted the 1975 Texas State Open, but Wikipedia places that edition, won by Ben Crenshaw, at Horseshoe Bay; we did not retain the claim, nor the 1980 renovation by Jay Morrish, which only those sites mention. The college newspaper counted 40 tennis courts in 2019, against today’s 68 courts for all racquet sports. Directories list three different phone numbers; we give the one on the club’s site. The coordinates in one directory differ slightly from OpenStreetMap; this page uses OpenStreetMap.

Some details will age: the results of the Championship renovation, the racquet facilities, the membership structure, the junior programs, and the review counts and averages read in October 2026. Membership costs are deliberately left out. The opinion section reports recurring themes rather than individual voices, and most of the reviews predate the latest renovation. Nobody from Panxis has played or visited this club, and this page is no substitute for a round.

The club has not paid for this page, has not seen it before publication and has no say over its content. This page contains no commercial link and earns us no commission. If you know the club and something here is wrong or out of date, write to us and we will correct it.

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