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Lakewood Country Club is a private country club in Dallas, Texas, founded in 1912, located at the corner of Gaston and Abrams Avenues in Lakewood, about five miles east, northeast of downtown Dallas. The golf course was originally designed by Tom Bendelow, with Ralph Plummer redesigning the course in 1948 and Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore subsequently revitalizing the layout. The par of Lakewood Country Club is 71, playing 6,600 yards of golf from the longest tees with a course rating of 72.4 and slope of 132.

Located in one of Dallas' oldest and most beautiful areas, Lakewood was originally designed by Tom Bendelow, with the course layout later influenced by Ralph Plummer in the 1940s, then by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore in the mid-1990s. The Dallas Open, now known as the Byron Nelson Classic, began here, and this private course has always had the unique, old-school charm of the greats. Lakewood Country Club hosted the Texas Victory Open in 1944, a PGA Tour golf tournament now known as the HP Byron Nelson Championship. The Byron Nelson Junior Championship is played annually at the Club.

Holes 2-4 are the toughest on the course and can destroy the round early if not handled appropriately. Hole 7 is the signature hole, a 205-yard, par 3, requiring a tee shot from off an elevated tee box over a pond to a well-bunkered green framed by oak trees. Lakewood Country Club has Pennlinks Bent Grass greens and Tiff 419 Bermuda Grass fairways.