Dallas Athletic Club
Mesquite, Dallas County, Texas · Park Cities / Preston Hollow / North Dallas golf market
- Access
- invitation only
- Holes
- 36
- Architect(s)
- Ralph Plummer (original), Jack Nicklaus (redesign)
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Dallas Athletic Club (DAC) is a private club founded in 1919 and relocated to its current 317-acre Mesquite site in 1954. It offers two Jack Nicklaus-redesigned championship courses (Blue and Gold) and hosted the 1963 PGA Championship, won by Nicklaus himself.
Golf & Course
Two courses, originally designed by Ralph Plummer, redesigned by Jack Nicklaus (Blue Course completed 1986, Gold Course 1989) -- the first club in the southwest with two Nicklaus signature courses. Hosted the 1963 PGA Championship.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Confirmed private membership club (not semi-private/public) per the club's own site and independent sourcing. No bundled residential community identified this session.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Ten outdoor tennis courts, a golf short-game practice facility and teaching center, dining, and year-round family/social programming, per the club's own materials.
Location & Surrounding Area
Located on a 317-acre site in Mesquite, a Dallas suburb roughly at the I-30/I-635 interchange -- a geographic outlier within this market grouping, included per the platform's routing of this candidate to the Park Cities/Preston Hollow/North Dallas batch.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current initiation fee, dues, and membership categories directly with the club -- no independent figures (even third-party aggregator estimates) were found this session.
- Confirm gated status directly with the club -- not independently confirmed this session.
Notable
- Founded 1919; relocated to its current 317-acre Mesquite site in 1954.
- Hosted the 1963 PGA Championship, won by Jack Nicklaus.
- The first club in the southwest with two Jack Nicklaus signature golf courses (Blue and Gold, redesigns of the original Ralph Plummer courses).
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