DALLAS — Keith Foster moved earth and found heaven. He dug it out of the dirt.

Foster was standing down on the third fairway at Brook Hollow, the historic Dallas golf club that hired him to restore the course's original design. Perhaps Foster's real task was finding A.W. Tillinghast, who built Brook Hollow in 1920. The famed architect's touch, Foster was certain, lay somewhere beneath a surface that grass and time had overgrown.

Guided by early aerial photographs of Brook Hollow and his own penchant for peeling back the layers of a golf course, Foster went to searching.

He started on the third hole, and on that fateful day in 2019, his crews were trying to shapeshift a slope away from the center of the fairway. Foster watched the excavator dig away, scooping top soil from the surface. O

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