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Fields Ranch at the Omni PGA Frisco Resort and Spa will host the PGA Championship in 2027, the first North Texas site for a men’s golf major championship in more than six decades.<\/p>\n
Erik Matuszewski<\/p>\n
Amid the heightened new development going on within the golf destination world, there\u2019s nothing quite like the Omni PGA Frisco Resort and Spa, the host site for the 2027 PGA Championship. <\/p>\n
This unique Texas property, just under an hour north of downtown Dallas, is a purpose-built campus that opened in 2023 and was designed to serve as the modern home of golf in the U.S. <\/p>\n
It can sometimes be confusing because of the nomenclature within the golf world, as it\u2019s often referred to as PGA Frisco, Fields Ranch or simply Frisco. But the official name for the overall property is Omni PGA Frisco<\/a>, with the golf component known as Fields Ranch<\/a>. The latter includes the two championship courses \u2013 the Gil Hanse-designed East and Beau Welling-designed West \u2013 along with a lighted 10-hole par 3 course called \u2018The Swing\u2019 and a massive, centrally-located putting green, \u2018The Dance Floor,\u2019 that\u2019s open to everyone.<\/p>\n Families enjoy The Dance Floor putting green late in the evening at Omni PGA Frisco.<\/p>\n Erik Matuszewski<\/p>\n The most unusual aspect of this still-growing destination is that four very different enterprises are partners in the property: the City of Frisco, Texas, the Frisco Independent School District, Omni Hotels & Resorts, and the PGA of America. But Paul Earnest, the director of golf and operations for Fields Ranch, says the partnership has worked well. <\/p>\n \u201cIt takes an immense amount of communication and immense amount of organization on who\u2019s going where and when,\u201d said Earnest. \u201cIt needs to be that way because you can\u2019t color too far out of the lines and be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n The PGA District sits just beyond the closing holes at Fields Ranch, with the Omni hotel off to the right.<\/p>\n Erik Matuszewski<\/p>\n There\u2019s more golf balance needed at Omni PGA Frisco than perhaps any other U.S. resort.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a membership component at Fields Ranch, which has about 180 total club members, with just under half of those being locals. There\u2019s also the local element, including the 12 Frisco high schools that call the property home for practice and competitions, as well as the Northern Texas PGA Foundation, which has 4,000 kids and was the developmental platform for pros like Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth and Will Zalatoris. And then there are the guests who come in from around the country for buddies\u2019 trips, family, group and couples\u2019 getaways, conventions, and corporate and charity events.<\/p>\n The par-3 5th is the shortest hole on the Beau Welling-designed West course at Fields Ranch. <\/p>\n Erik Matuszewski<\/p>\n Ultimately, just over 60% of tee times must be publicly accessible.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I don\u2019t provide (club members) with access, the membership starts to crumble but if we get too overzealous with some of the Frisco things we\u2019re doing it can backfire,\u201d added Earnest, who oversees operations of golf team with about 220 people (including caddies). \u201cAnd we spent $500-plus million on the total project so it has to work for Omni too.\u201d<\/p>\n Omni PGA Frisco Campus<\/p>\n The PGA of America’s headquarters at Omni PGA Frisco in Frisco, Texas. <\/p>\n Erik Matuszewski<\/p>\n In addition to the golf courses, there\u2019s a 500-room Omni hotel with 127,000 square feet of indoor meeting space, four pools, a spa and salon, 10 private ranch houses, and 13 food and beverage outlets. The PGA of America Home Office is on site, having relocated from its long-time home in South Florida. Meanwhile, the PGA District is a retail, restaurant and entertainment hub that includes the short course and the putting course overlooked by an outdoor jumbotron screen that shows sporting events and hosts movie nights. <\/p>\n \u201cThe campus, even if you\u2019re not a golfer, is an adult playground with all the activities that are here — including Cowboys\u2019 games, fireworks and drone shows,\u201d said Omni PGA Frisco VP and Managing Director Jeff Smith, who helped open the Omni Frisco Hotel at the Star near the Cowboys\u2019 training complex before joining the Omni PGA Frisco project in 2021. <\/p>\n The Cowboys\u2019 facility, less than 10 miles away, is half-owned by the NFL team and half owned by the school district, so 12 Frisco high school teams also play games there. That partnership was the roadmap for the partnership at Omni PGA Frisco, where Omni was the developer of the entirety of the campus, including the golf. <\/p>\n Smith said that Omni, having developed 22 properties from the ground up, learned from the other projects and incorporated the best elements in Frisco. <\/p>\n 2027 PGA Championship Site<\/p>\n The walking-only East course at Fields Ranch, part of the Omni PGA Frisco Resort, is the site of the 2027 PGA Championship.<\/p>\n Erik Matuszewski<\/p>\n When the PGA Championship<\/a> comes to Omni PGA Frisco in 2027, it will be the first men\u2019s major golf championship in North Texas in more than six decades. The last was the 1963 PGA Championship won by Jack Nicklaus at the Dallas Athletic Club.<\/p>\n While Welling\u2019s West course<\/a> is a more player-friendly resort course \u2013 more expansive and forgiving \u2013 the East <\/a>is the championship course at Fields Ranch. The walking-only layout demands a more strategic approach and is already slated to host other major PGA of America championships in the coming years, including the Women\u2019s PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship, and the Ryder Cup. <\/p>\n The infrastructure throughout the entire campus was built with hosting a major in mind, from the clubhouse to the locker rooms, where there are no \u201cdouble-stacked\u201d lockers because PGA requirements are that golf clubs need to fit in them. <\/p>\n Ultimately, hosting next year\u2019s PGA Championship will help push Omni PGA Frisco\u2019s other efforts forward, most notably welcoming new participants.<\/p>\n Overhead view of golfers walking off a green at Fields Ranch at Omni PGA Frisco. <\/p>\n Erik Matuszewski<\/p>\n \u201cThe halo effect\u2026 will be immeasurable,\u201d said Smith. \u201cWe\u2019re already absolutely on the rotation for golf buddy groups because there\u2019s been so much notoriety with what\u2019s been built and where we\u2019re headed. That will only explode. <\/p>\n \u201cIf it\u2019s not been on the radar for a golfer\u2019s interest, after that tournament we think the business will be quite substantial,\u201d Smith added. \u201cIt\u2019s not just the leisure travel or golf buddy groups; the majority of the groups that come here have a golf component. To be able to say we have a buyout on the East course that hosted the PGA Championship, that\u2019s the uniqueness of having a major championship at a resort rather than a private club.\u201d<\/p>\n And there may be no resort in the world of destination golf as unique as Omni PGA Frisco. <\/p>\n The 15th at the East course at Omni PGA Frisco, the shortest par 4 on the layout that will host the 2027 PGA Championship.<\/p>\n Erik Matuszewski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fields Ranch at the Omni PGA Frisco Resort and Spa will host the PGA Championship in 2027, the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":802913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[47],"tags":[326859,4721,1430,215733,326858,164405,4720,38867,62,326857,326860,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-802912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-2027-pga-championship","tag-fields-ranch","tag-golf","tag-golf-resort","tag-new-golf-resort","tag-omni-pga-frisco","tag-pga-championship","tag-pga-frisco","tag-sports","tag-texas-golf","tag-texas-golf-resort","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116590133863350583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}