Photos courtesy of Invited Clubs
Two courses — the Country Club and the Fazio — plus top-tier instruction and family amenities.
Commentary informed by the AvidGolfer 2026 Best of Private Golf feature.
The site of Stonebriar Country Club in Frisco, Texas opened in 1988 as the area's first private club, built around a single 18-hole layout — today known as the Country Club Course — designed by Joe Finger and Ken Dye, with input from Byron Nelson. Finger, a Houston native and Rice University golfer inducted into the Texas Golf Hall of Fame, designed or renovated dozens of courses across the U.S. and Mexico, while Ken Dye brought his signature routing through water, weaving the course around four interconnecting lakes that put water in play on 13 of 18 holes. The original layout hosted the LPGA Skins Game from 1990 to 1998 — won over the years by Jan Stephenson, Pat Bradley, Betsy King, Patty Sheehan, Dottie Pepper, Laura Davies, and Annika Sörenstam — plus Senior PGA events including the Murata Reunion Pro-Am.
In November 2000, the club added a second championship course designed by Tom Fazio, his first design in North Texas. Fazio moved more than 600,000 cubic yards of earth across the once-flat hayfield to create dramatic elevation changes, and his Augusta-inspired bentgrass greens (later converted to MiniVerde) became the layout's signature. The Fazio Course is affiliated with the adjacent Westin Stonebriar Golf Resort & Spa and accessible to resort guests, while the Country Club Course remains members-only.
The clubhouse underwent a $2 million renovation in 2013, followed by upgrades to locker rooms, spa, lounge, and ballroom. Originally opened as a neighborhood country club and later owned by ClubCorp, Stonebriar is now operated by Invited Clubs and has grown to roughly 1,600 members across 36 holes of golf, tennis, pools, and dining.
The original championship course (1988). Four interconnecting lakes bring water into play on 13 of 18 holes, with undulating fairways and quick greens — the tougher of Stonebriar's two layouts (7,064 yds, slope 140).
Tom Fazio's 2000 layout plays a bit more forgiving off the tee — mounded fairways kick balls back to the short grass — but the lightning-fast, Augusta-like greens are the signature challenge (7,021 yds, slope 137).
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