The best public golf in Texas is scattered across a state big enough to be a journey of its own — from the championship expanse of Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco, a Gil Hanse design built to host major championships north of Dallas, to Tom Doak's reborn Memorial Park muni in the heart of Houston, where the PGA Tour returns each spring. Between them lie the limestone cliffs and red oaks of Barton Creek's Fazio Canyons in the Austin Hill Country, the rugged, tour-tested Oaks at TPC San Antonio, and Doak's improbable Rawls Course, sculpted from a flat Lubbock cotton field on the high plains. Five courses, five distinct corners of Texas — championship golf with no membership required.