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This is great news. Trinity Forest is a terrible course for spectators. I hope it moves to the new PGA course in Frisco. Less than a 10 minute drive for me.


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PGA Tour says AT&T Byron Nelson tournament will move after 2020

After two years of weather setbacks, disappointing attendance and declining financial results, the PGA Tour has decided that the 2020 AT&T Byron Nelson in...
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I've gone to the Nelson several times when it was at TPC Las Colinas. We went to Trinity Forest the first year and all of us vowed we would never go back. It was terrible for spectators even putting the lack of shade aside. On most holes you could only view the tee, fairway or green from one side and many of the greens were elevated just enough that you were standing below the green and couldn't even see the hole when the guys were putting.
 
Architex said:
This is great news. Trinity Forest is a terrible course for spectators. I hope it moves to the new PGA course in Frisco. Less than a 10 minute drive for me.


www.dallasnews.com

PGA Tour says AT&T Byron Nelson tournament will move after 2020

After two years of weather setbacks, disappointing attendance and declining financial results, the PGA Tour has decided that the 2020 AT&T Byron Nelson in...
www.dallasnews.com


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Don’t think that will be ready for 2021 so they will have to go somewhere else, at least in the interim.

I would be cool with TPC again
 
TexasHacker34 said:
Don’t think that will be ready for 2021 so they will have to go somewhere else, at least in the interim.

I would be cool with TPC again
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Your probably right. Just read the article about Frisco and it is supposed to be done in 2021.


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Craig Ranch would be nice and close but it is now owned by Club Corp so I'm not sure if it is still a TPC associated course anymore.
 
Built over a toxic landfill!:ROFLMAO:
 
This is great news.

There are some good courses in the Dallas area but it’s questionable whether the membership to the best ones would agree to host the event. Las Colinas might be the best stop gap option until the agriscience track is ready.

ETA: agriscience - WTF auto-suggest? That should be “the Frisco track.” :LOL::banghead:
 
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I feel like they never set up Trinity Forest properly (very firm and fast), but the raised greens and lack of definition really made it poor for spectators/tv.
 
Good. That tournament was unwatchable on TV at that course.
 
TexasHacker34 said:
Don’t think that will be ready for 2021 so they will have to go somewhere else, at least in the interim.

I would be cool with TPC again
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i read where Los Colinas was back in play until the Frisco course is ready.
 
I live in Frisco and can’t wait for it to move to the new PGA course once it’s built. A shadeless Trinity course was brutal and I lasted about 9 holes following a Wednesday pro-am.


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Anyone who has lived in Dallas for over a decade will tell you that Trinity Forest would not work to increase revenue and charitable contributions. That site is far from the golfing crowd.

Also, lack of cover from elements, no trees, lack of marketing to make it a party, it's in South Dallas, lack of entertainment facilities in the area, and just not a welcoming venue for the market that typically attends the Nelson - people around here want a party and great facilities - demanding bashtards. lol.
 
I lived in the Dallas area for several years and loved going to TPC course. Would love to see it go back and plan a trip down to see it again.
 
Las Colinas was a great course for it. Not sure the new Frisco course would be ready by next Spring
 
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Las Colinas was a great course for it. Not sure the new Frisco course would be ready by next Spring
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Enjoyed TPC Las Colinas site, but the players did not like the course and other reasons, and they said so by not showing up. When DA Weibring re-did the course, they went on the cheap because of the recession. DA did a fine job with the money he was given, but they needed to blow up the course.
 
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I feel like they never set up Trinity Forest properly (very firm and fast), but the raised greens and lack of definition really made it poor for spectators/tv.
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I preferred playing Trinity more than Las Colinas but it’s terrible on tv. I couldn’t tell you anything really outstanding about either course but I liked it better.


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Matthew said:
I preferred playing Trinity more than Las Colinas but it’s terrible on tv. I couldn’t tell you anything really outstanding about either course but I liked it better.


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This ^^^^ I have played them both also and i found that Trinty forrest was a shot makers course. You have to figure out how to get the ball near the hole on so many holes. Run it up from off the front. You could fly it in if the pin was back. Great course to play but har to get a good look for spectators. No shade....they got better this past year but still lacking. We were lucky and had suite seats from playing in the pro-am
 
Whats the course in Frisco you guys are talking about?
 
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Whats the course in Frisco you guys are talking about?
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"The sprawling future site of the PGA of America headquarters spanning 660 acres in Frisco is starting to show signs of life as developers hurtle toward the campus’ 2022 opening.

“We have a vision — vision of championship golf — of bringing majors to North Texas for the first time since the 1963 PGA Championship, which was held at Dallas Athletic Club,” PGA of America President Suzy Whaley told Frisco officials and members of the media gathered on the site of the new campus Friday.

When complete, the campus will include two championship golf courses and a short course totaling 45 holes. It will also feature a 500-room resort hotel, a 127,000-square-foot conference center, miles of trails, a retail district and even a dedicated space for Frisco ISD student athletes to train. Frisco ISD has about 200 students competing in high school golf at its 10 high schools.

“This was the hardest deal” Frisco has ever worked on, Mayor Jeff Cheney told city officials and media, as tractor treads could be heard rattling over dirt mounds in the distance.

From attracting the tournaments, preserving green space, keeping the development a public asset that could be used by the community and finding the right financial partners in Omni Stillwater Woods — which is contributing the lion’s share of the investment dollars — everything had to come together, he said.

Early partners involved in the plan to develop the former cattle ranch had predicted in 2017 that the development of the land could take decades, Cheney said.

“We weren’t talking about a golf course,” Cheney said of early talks about how to develop the land in a way that would be a legacy to the former owners. “They thought this was going to be a 25-year development cycle for this property. I can tell you it’s not going to be a 25-year development cycle.”

Crews have been developing the land at breakneck pace — moving as much as 150,000 cubic yards of earth each week, according to PGA of America officials.

Every amenity on the property is expected to be open and operating by June 2022.

CEO Seth Waugh refers to it as the Silicon Valley of Golf, functioning as an epicenter for the sport much like Northern California serves as a hub for the tech industry.

Aside from hosting 23 championships over the next 12 years, PGA of America hopes the new campus will foster a plugged-in, forward-looking golf community that will drive the sport into the future.

PGA of America also is placing its new headquarters here, after officially announcing in late 2018 that it was trading sunny Palm Beach County, Fla., for the wide-open spaces of business-minded Frisco.

Ground will be broken for the new headquarters as early as next spring, said PGA of America Chief Operating Officer Darrell Crall. Twenty-five PGA employees have relocated to North Texas and are working out of temporary office space at Hall Park. The company has invited 100 more employees to relocate for a second phase and 86 have agreed.


“We’ll have a stair-step of team members coming,” Crall said, “and those that haven’t yet been invited are knocking on the door. They’re so excited to make PGA Frisco their home.”

PGA of America has brought on Page as the architects for the headquarters facility and Cushman & Wakefield to manage the project. The organization is still finalizing a construction partner.

The entire $520 million campus is something Frisco and the state of Texas are invested heavily in. The state is covering the totality of hotel and sales taxes for the next 10 years. The city, Frisco Economic Development Corp., Frisco Community Development Corp. and Frisco ISD ponied up more than $35 million collectively for the project.

And the investment is predicted to pay off to the tune of $2.5 billion in economic development over the next two decades, according to an economic impact study commissioned by the city of Frisco.

Various golf events hosted on the campus are expected have a positive economic impact on the surrounding area, but the resort, being built in partnership with Omni Hotels & Resorts, will contribute to that growth as well.

The resort will not only feature 500 rooms but also seven private villas that will be separate from the main hotel and can be rented out, according to Omni Hotels & Resorts parent company TRT Holdings, which is developing the resort.

Blake Rowling, president of TRT Holdings, said his company is “deep in negotiations” with potential tenants for the planned retail space.

“I think what we’ve designed is going to appeal to so many — whether you’re a meeting planner looking to host 500 people, a bride looking for the perfect place to have a wedding or a Frisco resident looking to let your kids run around somewhere on a Saturday afternoon," Rowling said."
 
Found it, south west intersection of 380 and the DNT
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