Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco

Fields Ranch East is Gil Hanse's anchor course at PGA Frisco, opened in 2023 alongside the Omni PGA Frisco Resort and confirmed as host of the 2027 PGA Championship. Hanse and his design partner Jim Wagner had something rare in modern American golf architecture: a large canvas with institutional backing, a mandate to build a walking-only course with mandatory caddies, and the certainty that major championship golf would arrive. They delivered a course that places among the most significant public-access layouts built in the United States in the past decade.

You're playing up to 7,863 yards, par 72, on gently rolling North Texas terrain that Hanse and Wagner shaped into something far more interesting than the flat prairie suggests. Ridgelines, swales, and bunker placements create visual complexity on a site that, before construction, offered little natural drama. The achievement isn't that the course mimics the Sandhills or the Oregon dunes; it's that the terrain feels purposeful, every contour guiding the eye toward a decision.

The green complexes are the centrepiece. They're large enough to accept varied approach angles but internally contoured with enough movement to make pin position a genuine factor. False fronts, subtle crowns, and run-off areas reward the golfer who thinks backward from flagstick to tee. Firm turf supports a ground game that a high-trajectory approach cannot replicate. The bunkering reinforces the strategy, with shallow scrapes that punish through position and deeper greenside hazards that punish through difficulty. North Texas wind is a year-round factor, and Hanse oriented the holes so no stretch of three or four consecutive holes plays into the same direction.

Fields Ranch East is the anchor of a golf destination that did not exist five years ago. It arrived fully formed, with major championship credentials and architectural seriousness. For the travelling golfer considering a trip to North Texas, it is the reason to come.