Shady Oaks Country Club
Westworth Village, Tarrant County, Texas · Fort Worth golf market
- Access
- invitation only
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Robert Trent Jones Sr.
- Gated
- No
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Shady Oaks is defined almost entirely by one relationship: Ben Hogan's. Marvin Leonard -- who had already built Colonial a generation earlier -- built Shady Oaks in the late 1950s and personally ran it for a year before admitting a single member, and Hogan, whom Leonard had known since Hogan caddied at Glen Garden as a boy, joined at founding and made it his golf home for the next four decades. The club has stayed deliberately small ever since, prioritizing quality and privacy over scale -- a different model from the larger member-owned Fort Worth clubs like Ridglea or River Crest.
Golf & Course
Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed the course after what one club history calls one of the largest earth-moving projects a golf course had seen at the time; it opened in 1958. Hogan practiced daily on the club's 'Little Nine,' a 10-acre practice ground at the course's center, well into his retirement, and the club counts eight PGA and LPGA Tour members among its current membership roster.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Shady Oaks is private and member-owned with membership kept intentionally small; no public fee schedule or open application process was found. No evidence surfaced of any tie between membership and a specific home purchase -- this is a freestanding club, not a residential-bundled product, and the club's own site confirms it is not part of a gated community.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Amenities include an 18-hole course with driving range and putting green, a full-service golf shop, three dining rooms and two banquet rooms, men's and women's locker rooms, a fitness center, two indoor and five outdoor tennis courts, and a 25-meter pool.
Location & Surrounding Area
The club sits in Westworth Village, a small incorporated city fully surrounded by Fort Worth -- treated here as part of the Fort Worth golf market given its immediate adjacency and shared identity with Fort Worth's historic private-club scene.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Golf membership initiation
Historical — as of 2026$62,500
Reported as a $50,001-$75,000 range by a third-party club-data aggregator; midpoint used here for the single-value field. Shady Oaks does not publish fees publicly -- confirm directly with the club.
Initiation (range low)
Historical — as of 2026$50,001
Aggregator-reported range, not an official rate sheet.
Initiation (range high)
Historical — as of 2026$75,000
Aggregator-reported range, not an official rate sheet.
Annual dues
Historical — as of 2026$7,500
Reported as a $5,001-$10,000/year range by the same aggregator; midpoint used. Not an official rate.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Current initiation fee and dues directly with the club.
- Current total membership count and whether a waitlist exists.
- Which of shadyoaksclub.com / shadyoakscc.com is the club's current official site.
Notable
- Ben Hogan's home club for roughly 40 years, following a lifelong friendship with founder Marvin Leonard that began when Hogan caddied for Leonard at Glen Garden Country Club as a boy.
- Leonard reportedly ran the club at his own expense for a full year before admitting its first member.
- Currently counts eight PGA and LPGA Tour members on its membership roster.
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