Firestone & Robertson Distilling Golf Course

The Firestone & Robertson Distilling Golf Course occupies the site of the former Glen Garden Country Club in Fort Worth, originally designed by John Bredemus. A pioneering Texas golf course architect known as the father of Texas golf, Bredemus was a Princeton civil engineering graduate who moved to Texas in 1919, co-founded the Texas PGA in 1922, and designed over 50 courses including notable DFW-area layouts like Colonial Country Club and Meadowbrook Golf Course. Glen Garden opened in 1912 as a nine-hole course with sand greens, expanded to 18 holes by 1925 with Bermuda greens, and played as a 6,200-yard par-71 private club until briefly going public before closing in 2014. It hosted early PGA Tour events, including the 1945 Fort Worth Open won by Byron Nelson—his record 18th victory that year—and the 1946 event won by amateur Frank Stranahan; legends Nelson, Ben Hogan, and LPGA player Sandra Palmer learned and played their early golf there as caddies and juniors.

In 2014, Firestone & Robertson Distilling Co., founded by avid golfers Leonard Firestone and Troy Robertson, purchased the bankrupt property to expand their TX Whiskey operations into the 112-acre Whiskey Ranch distillery, which opened in 2017. The course was modified to accommodate the distillery, ranch house, and visitors center: holes were rerouted, new ones added like the par-3 sixth, shortening it to around 5,300-6,166 yards as a par-68 or 71 quirky layout with three par-5s and seven par-3s, improved conditioning, and Bermuda greens. Accessible only by invitation for private and charity events, it remains an amenity of the private distillery grounds, preserved by the owners even after Pernod Ricard acquired Firestone & Robertson in 2019. No major renovations beyond the 2017 modifications are documented, and the club has no public tournament history under its current identity.