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Brook Hollow Golf Club is a private golf course in Dallas, Texas, originally built in 1920 by golf course architect A. W. Tillinghast. The 18-hole course features 6,703 yards of golf for a par of 71, with a course rating of 72.1 and slope rating of 131. The course originated when Dallas businessman Cameron Buxton asked his Philadelphia golfing friend A.W. Tillinghast to design a golf course in the Dallas area, and Tillinghast chose a rural setting overlooking a branch of the Trinity River, six miles west of downtown Dallas. The course is known for its shot-making demands, with only two straight holes apart from the par threes—the gentle par five 1st and the tough par four 12th—while seven holes require a fade off the tee and six call for a draw. One of the hardest holes is the slightly uphill, 449-yard 7th hole, a long difficult par four that veers right with three huge fairway bunkers and a heavily bunkered green framed by enormous pine trees—Ben Hogan rated this hole as his favorite number 7 in America. A major 2021 remodel by architect Keith Foster returned Brook Hollow to its original A.W. Tillinghast design by accentuating pedestal-like greens with squared-off edges, installing steep-faced bunkers, and re-introducing Tillinghast's 'great hazard' sand wastelands. The Byron Nelson, known at the time as the Dallas Invitational, was held at Brook Hollow in 1946, with Ben Hogan winning the tournament.