here is little record or backstory as
to how one of the biggest events in
Texas golf history came to Dallas
Athletic Club just nine years after it hired
Ralph Plummer to build a new 36-hole
facility on the edge of Dallas and Mesquite.
In a much simpler era,...
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here is little record or backstory as
to how one of the biggest events in
Texas golf history came to Dallas
Athletic Club just nine years after it hired
Ralph Plummer to build a new 36-hole
facility on the edge of Dallas and Mesquite.
In a much simpler era, golf’s major
championships were awarded to the clubs
who wanted them the most and had the
ability to put on a great event.
Longtime DAC head golf pro Graham
Ross exercised his clout within the PGA to
bring the event to Dallas and put DAC’s
new facilities in the national spotlight and
put its course to the ultimate test.
“I can say without a doubt that Graham
Ross was the biggest factor in getting the
PGA to DAC,” said Joe Black, the PGA
Tour’s tournament director at the time. “He
had a tremendous amount of influence with
the PGA of America.”
In 1953, DAC acquired 300 acres of
rolling terrain east of downtown near the
proposed LBJ Freeway. By 1954, Plummer
had finished DAC’s Blue and Gold courses
and it was opened for play. In June 1
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