Bent Tree Country Club
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas · Park Cities / Preston Hollow / North Dallas golf market
- Access
- invitation only
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Desmond Muirhead, Keith Foster (renovation, c. 2000)
- Gated
- Yes
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Bent Tree Country Club is a private, invitation-only club in Far North Dallas, opened in 1974 as the centerpiece of a 700-acre residential development by Dallas investors Robert Folsom and John Murchison. Several distinctly-named neighborhoods carry the Bent Tree name and surround the club, but membership itself is a standalone, invitation-only product independent of any homeowners association.
Golf & Course
Opened 1974 (one source states 1972), designed by Desmond Muirhead on former cotton fields; renovated by Keith Foster around 2000. Hosted LPGA and Senior PGA events in the 1980s, plus the Dallas Reunion Pro-Am (1985-88) and the Bank One Senior Championship (1999-2000).
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Invitation-only, member-owned club, independent of the surrounding neighborhoods' homeowners associations. This is NOT a mandatory-assessment/bundled model -- confirmed distinct from Georgia's differently-governed, similarly-named club.
Living in Bent Tree Country Club
Several named North Dallas neighborhoods -- Bent Tree North, Bent Tree Village, Bent Tree West, Old Bent Tree, Bent Tree Royal, and Lakes of Bent Tree -- were built around the club and carry its name, though HOA structures and gating vary by neighborhood and club membership is not automatic with home purchase.
Location & Surrounding Area
Located at 5201 Westgrove Drive in Far North Dallas, near Addison and the Dallas North Tollway.
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.
Initiation (range low)
Historical$50,000
privateIQ (third-party aggregator, not club-published) reports a full golf membership initiation fee of $50,000 and a separate social membership at $15,000; another aggregator figure cites $75,000. Not confirmed as current -- treat as a rough historical estimate only.
Initiation (range high)
Historical$75,000
Upper-end aggregator estimate ($75,000); conflicts somewhat with the $50,000 full-golf figure from the same source family, likely reflecting different membership tiers. Not club-published.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fee and dues directly with the club -- only third-party aggregator estimates ($50,000-$75,000 range) were found this session.
- Confirm gated status and HOA structure for each specific surrounding neighborhood individually -- they are not uniform (e.g., Bent Tree North's HOA is voluntary).
Notable
- Opened 1974 as the centerpiece of a 700-acre development by Dallas investors Robert Folsom and John Murchison; Desmond Muirhead design.
- Hosted LPGA and Senior PGA Tour events in the 1980s-90s, including the Bank One Senior Championship (1999-2000).
- Several distinctly-named North Dallas neighborhoods (Bent Tree North/Village/West/Royal, Lakes of Bent Tree) carry the club's name and were built around it -- but club membership itself is a separate, invitation-only product, not an HOA-bundled amenity.
- CONFIRMED a different, unrelated entity from Georgia's Bent Tree Country Club/Community (Jasper, Pickens County, GA), which this platform has already published under a mandatory-assessment governance model -- do not merge or infer that model here.
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