Stevens
Park
Oak Cliff, Dallas · Municipal · 1924
A WALK-UP SONG FOR STRATEGY, TEMPO AND FLOW AT DALLAS’S PUBLIC COURSE.
MASTER STREAMS FROM THE 248 AUDIO HOST · NOTHING HERE IS PLACEHOLDER AUDIO
Frame-by-frame video of tour professionals shows elite swings share a ~3:1 time signature — one canonical tour tempo is 24 frames back, 8 down. Every anthem is cut to that grid at 112 BPM, so the pocket of the song is the pocket of the swing.
Three holes ask a real question.
Published course writing describes the 2nd, the 10th and the 18th — an angle, a reward, a dilemma. The line here is the round as a sequence, not a routing: no verified hole-by-hole card exists for Stevens Park, and we don’t draw maps we can’t source.
SCHEMATIC SEQUENCE — NOT A ROUTING MAP · ONLY THE THREE SOURCED HOLES ARE MARKED
- YOUR CLUBS & YARDAGESWhat you’ll actually hit here, from your carries and the course strategy.
- THE THREE DECISIONS, YOUR WAYThe 2nd, 10th and 18th read for your game — plan vs. tendency.
- YOUR WARM-UP, TIMEDThe range plan for the time you have, club by club.
- THE ANTHEM, INSIDE ITThe digital report plays it; the PDF links straight back to it.
TAKES UNDER A MINUTE · NOTHING IS STORED BY THIS PAGE
Half-wedges at 3:1 until the grid settles, then five drivers committed to one line — the 2nd asks for that commitment on the second swing of your round.
Add mid-irons with one extra club — the 10th’s approach plays uphill, longer than its number — and finish with full-distance wedges, the club both 18th options leave you.
Wedge to driver at 112 BPM, then replay the three decisions as range reps: the angle line, the extra-club approach, both closing options. End on the putting green — uphill misses live below the hole.
WHY THESE CLUBS, HERE — FROM THE SOURCED STRATEGY
- The 2nd’s green angle makes the opening drive a committed-line swing, not a warm-up swing.
- The 10th is downhill off the tee, uphill in — rehearse the longer-than-the-number approach.
- The 18th ends in a pitch or a full wedge whichever club you choose off the tee.
THE STRUCTURE IS 248 METHOD. THE CLUB EMPHASIS COMES FROM THE THREE SOURCED DECISIONS — NO CLUB-MIX PERCENTAGES ARE INVENTED, BECAUSE NO VERIFIED HOLE-BY-HOLE CARD EXISTS FOR STEVENS PARK. YOUR WARM-UP REPORT REPLACES THIS WITH YOUR CLUBS AND YOUR YARDAGES.
Dallas’s second municipal course, opened 1924 in Oak Cliff on a nine laid out by Jack Burke Sr. In 2011 the city spent $8 million rebuilding it — new routing, tees, fairways, greens and 38 bunkers — and put $4.5 million of it underground. The cross-section below is drawn to scale: 40 pixels per million dollars. The reason the course plays well is the part you can’t see.
- OPENED
- 1924 — the second municipal golf course in Dallas
- ORIGINAL DESIGNER
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Jack Burke Sr. first ninecorroborated
The 1924 / Burke Sr. spine is corroborated across several independent published sources. The later expansion to eighteen holes is unattributed, and who the course is named for was not established — so no claim is made about either.
- 2011 REBUILD
- Colligan Golf Design with Trey Kemp — $8M total, $4.5M of it irrigation and cart-path infrastructure
- PAR / LENGTH
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70 · 6,285–6,305 yardssources disagree
Par 70 is consistent everywhere. Length is published as 6,285 in some databases and 6,305 in others, with neither figure attached to a named tee set — so the range is printed rather than one number as definitive. Rating and slope could not be verified at all; neither is shown.
- RECOGNITION
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Top-50 U.S. municipal Golfweekundated ranking
No year was found for the ranking, so it is printed without one rather than with a plausible guess.
- ACCESS
- Municipal — owned by the City of Dallas, open to anyone
Jack Burke Sr.
Club professional at River Oaks Country Club in Houston, and runner-up at the 1920 U.S. Open.
His son, Jack Burke Jr., won the 1956 Masters. A municipal nine in Oak Cliff is not the part of that family’s record anyone tells stories about, which is roughly the point.
The unglamorous half
A rebuild where $4.5M disappears into pipe is a decision about what actually determines quality. Drainage is not a feature — it is the reason the features work. A tempo grid is the same kind of spend: nobody claps for the bar length.
Not a “hidden gem”
That phrase comes from listing sites — somebody else’s marketing, not a fact about the course. And we won’t tell you which holes see the skyline, because we could not verify it.