# Texas Star Golf Course: A Course Profile

Source: https://thecourserankings.com/blog/texas-star-golf-course-profile/

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A golf ball beside the hole on a green. Photo: PattayaPatrol, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Texas Star was built on a reclaimed landfill. Say that plainly, because the course does. A municipal layout in Euless, in the Mid Cities between Dallas and Fort Worth, opened in 1997 on ground most developers would have walked past, and Keith Foster turned it into one of the more respected public tests in North Texas. The surprise the record keeps coming back to is elevation change. The Mid Cities are not known for hills. A capped landfill gives you hills whether you want them or not, and Foster used the movement instead of apologizing for it.

That origin story matters to how the course plays and how it is judged. Golfers who arrive expecting a flat city track on cheap land get something else: a layout with up and down in it, sightlines that do not repeat, and a round that asks more questions than the address suggests. The Dallas Morning News put Texas Star at No. 91 in its 2026 Texas Top 100, which for a municipal course in Euless is a real achievement. Texas has hundreds of courses and a deep bench of expensive private clubs. A city course cracking the top 100 at all means the golf is doing the talking.

## What Foster did with the ground

Keith Foster's name on a public course is usually a good sign, and the record here supports it without inventing details we do not have. We know the course has hosted numerous state and regional amateur events, per Texas public course guides, and amateur fields are a useful jury. Tournament committees do not return to courses that embarrass them. They need a layout that can be set up fairly, that separates players without gimmicks, and that holds up under a full field of good golfers playing for something. Texas Star keeps getting that work.

The landfill bones help more than they hurt. Elevation change means uneven lies, downhill approaches, and tee shots where the landing area is not where your eye first puts it. In a region where so much public golf plays across flat former farmland, that variety is the course's identity. It also means the wind behaves differently than it does on the flat stuff nearby. Shots climb and drop here.

Access is the other half of the argument. Texas Star is municipal. Anyone can book it. In our [Texas state ranking](/blog/the-5-best-golf-courses-in-texas/), most of the courses above it are private clubs or high fee resorts, and that contrast is the point of keeping a course like this in the conversation. A ranking that only lists golf you cannot play is a directory of other people's afternoons.

## The honest concession

No. 91 in the state is also the ceiling, and we should say so. Texas Star is a very good municipal course, not a hidden entrant in the state's top tier, and the players who rank it fairly put it exactly there. The landfill history, charming as the redemption story is, also means the setting will never be mistaken for the Hill Country or the Piney Woods. You know where you are. You are in the Mid Cities, on reclaimed ground, playing a smart public course.

It also competes in the most crowded public market in Texas. Dallas Fort Worth golfers have dozens of solid options within an hour, so Texas Star has to win its tee sheet every week on value and interest rather than reputation alone. By the evidence of the rankings and the amateur calendar, it does.

Who suits it: the public golfer in the Mid Cities who wants terrain and a real test without driving to the edges of the metroplex. Who it frustrates: the golfer who judges a course by its entrance drive. Texas Star's entrance drive runs over an old landfill. Its golf runs well above that, and the gap between the two is the whole story.

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