Trinity Forest Golf Club

Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner designed Trinity Forest in 2016 on a piece of South Dallas, Texas land that was a former landfill — the property had been sealed and capped through environmental remediation, and the Hanse-Wagner routing represented one of the most-ambitious American course-on-remediated-land projects. The site has no trees on the routing — the architects committed to a treeless links-style design that uses the Texas wind and the natural mounding from the landfill cap as the architectural defense. The PGA Tour's AT&T Byron Nelson tournament was played at Trinity Forest from 2018 through 2020, giving the course immediate Tour exposure during its opening years.

The course plays around 7,419 yards par 71 from the championship markers, with zoysia fairways — a hard, fast Texas turf — and a slope in the upper 130s. The fairways play firm year-round given the sand-and-gravel cap underneath, and the bounces run twenty and thirty yards on dry days, in the way that links routings consistently produce. The third hole is a 480-yard par-4 with a natural depression in the fairway that funnels approach shots toward the green; the eighteenth, a 482-yard par-4 with a green set on a natural rise, has been the deciding hole in multiple Byron Nelson editions. The treeless routing produces unique Texas links visual signature that the Hanse-Wagner partnership has not replicated elsewhere.

Trinity Forest is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Dallas business and professional families with the Salesmanship Club of Dallas (the Byron Nelson charity sponsor) as the founding institutional partner. The PGA Tour rotation has since moved on, but the course remains in the broader Tour-event conversation.

North Texas climate gives Trinity Forest a playing season of February through November, with the firmest conditions in May and October. Dallas summers run hot and humid; the smart member play is early morning through July and August. The exposed routing means the wind is the daily constant — the treeless property is significantly windier than the surrounding suburban Dallas courses.