Tenison Park (The Glen)

Overview: Tenison Glen is the historic 18-hole course at Tenison Park in east Dallas, winding through the White Rock Creek greenbelt about a mile south of White Rock Lake. City course information lists it at roughly 6,762 yards, with the official course page confirming a par-72 layout. The setting is unusually green for an urban municipal course, with meandering fairways, tree cover and the creek’s floodplain shaping the views and the playing lines. It is a course where club selection can change from hole to hole, and the natural corridor makes the round feel more secluded than the surrounding city suggests.

History: Tenison’s golf history reaches back to 1924, when the park’s courses opened on land donated by E.O. Tenison. The Glen became one of Dallas’s first municipally owned golf courses and has hosted the USGA National Public Links Championship. In recent years the city has examined changes to the Glen site as part of a wider Samuell Grand Park master plan, including a possible shorter format. The current official course page still lists and describes the 18-hole Glen routing, so that is the identity recorded here while the longer-term planning remains a separate future question.

Did You Know? The Glen’s name reflects its setting along White Rock Creek, where the course sits lower and more naturally enclosed than the nearby Tenison Highlands layout. The two courses share a park, but the Glen’s floodplain character gives it a very different rhythm.