Indian Creek Golf Club - Lakes Course

The Lakes Course at Indian Creek Golf Club in Carrollton, Texas, was designed by Dick Phelps, a Colorado-based architect and ASGCA Fellow known for over 400 projects across 15 states and Canada, emphasizing user-friendly public courses with visible hazards and no blind shots. A graduate of Iowa State University with degrees in landscape architecture, Phelps created numerous municipal layouts, including Firewheel Golf Park in nearby Garland and many in Colorado such as Patty Jewett Golf Course and Saddle Rock Golf Course. The Lakes Course opened in 1987, following the club's Creek Course by four years (Creek opened 1983), as part of the city-owned 36-hole municipal facility managed by the City of Carrollton's Parks & Recreation Department. In 2019, Todd J. Clark, ASGCA—an Overland Park, Kansas-based architect with CE Golf Design who previously worked for Dick Nugent Associates and Craig Schreiner—led a $4 million redesign that reshaped greens, tees, fairways, added new cart paths, and upgraded drainage and irrigation; it reopened in early 2020. No previous names or major ownership changes are documented for the course, which has hosted local leagues, clinics, and amateur events like US Kids Golf tournaments but no professional or USGA championships. The sibling Creek Course, considered more difficult, received its own redesign by Jeff Brauer in 2004.