Sherrill Park’s Namesake
Sherrill Park Golf Course was named after Richardson’s first city manager, R.B. Sherrill. Sherrill served as City Manager from 1956-73. During that time, Richardson’s population grew from 3,000 to 57,000. A Richardson Daily News article announcing the naming of the golf course published on Aug. 27, 1973 said that Sherrill served as an engineer on two airfield projects during World War II and began his municipal service as a city engineer in Vernon, Texas from 1945-54. He was hired as City Manager in Lufkin, Texas in 1954 and served there until coming to Richardson. Sherrill passed away in 1980.

First Golf Pro
Buster Creagh was hired in April 1972 as the first golf professional at Sherrill Park. Creagh came to Richardson from Woodhaven Country Club in Fort Worth and also previously worked at Denton Country Club.
Creagh hired current Sherrill Park Head Professional Ronny Glanton in 1981 as an assistant golf professional.
“Buster was an innovator,” Glanton said. “He was enthusiastic about the golf business and understood public golf in a way no other operator did in his time. I learned a whole lot from Buster about the golf business and how to operate a public facility.”
A native of Hearne, Texas, Creagh passed away in 2016

Texas Golf Hall of Famer
Ronny Glanton has served as the Sherrill Park Head Professional since 1985 and was the Assistant Golf Professional from 1981-84. In 2022, Glanton was inducted into the Texas Golf Hall of Fame and was named the 2020 PGA Golf Professional of the Year, the highest annual honor given to a PGA of America Professional.
Throughout his time as a PGA Member, Glanton has served the Northern Texas PGA as Secretary and Vice President, as well as President of the Section twice. In addition, Glanton represented the North Texas PGA as an At-Large Director on the PGA of America Board from 2010-12, representing the NTPGA, STPGA and Sun Country PGA. He has served on multiple section and national committees (including Chairman of the PGA of America Tournament Committee from 2010-14) and has received numerous awards including being named NTPGA Golf Professional of the Year an unprecedented three times.
In addition to this long career as a golf professional and teacher, Glanton’s playing record includes qualifying for the PGA Professional National Championship nine times, playing in seven AT&T Byron Nelson PGA Tour events, winning six NTPGA Senior Division Major Championships and three NTPGA Team Major Championships, representing the NTPGA 16 times on its Joe Black Cup Team (fourth NTPGA all-time in individual points) and serving as Captain of the NTPGA Joe Black Cup Team three times.

Course Designers
Sherrill Park Course 1, which opened in 1973, as well as Course 2, which opened in 1976, were designed by Leon Howard. Both courses were later redesigned by local firm Weibring and Wolfard Golf Design: Course 1 in 1997 and Course 2 in 2001. Since then, Weibring and Wolfard have performed an additional renovation on Course 1 in 2015, and will be starting renovations on Course 2 in January 2024.