Featured Golf & Travel: Dallas Ft. Worth Metro
The TPC Las Colinas is host of the Byron Nelson Classic - and you can get to play it when you're in the Dallas Metroplex area. D.A. Weibring was called in to modify the TPC at Las Colinas and there were changes post this tslide show so all of these images do not reflect those changes to 11, 17 front right of green, nor the water now put in place down the left side of #18. Otherwise this is still a good look at the place. #16 is a 554 yard par five that is reachable depending upon the playing conditions. The wind on the par three 17th tee can often be in the players face or 'obscured' left to right and in making the club selection here a little tricky with a Sunday pin position just over the lake in the right front of the green. #18 now has water in play from the tee shot on the left where you see trees in our show all the way to the green. Our look is from behind the tee box and looking down the fairway of the 430 yard par four finishing hole at Los Colinas. Now with water in play it even more so now requires a good solid tee shot down the right center to create enough angle for the second shot into this birdie-able par four finishing hole. This event is often subject to storms in the area in the Spring. (Click Here to our Slide Show) of TPC Las Colinas :
Colonial Country Club
Maybe you'll be lucky enough to know a member and get to play Colonial Country Club in Ft. Worth on your stay in the Dallas Metroplex area. Colonial was designed in 1929 by Perry Maxwell and has hosted some form of the Colonial golf tournament since 1938 including the 1941 U.S. Open. Beautiful old oak tree lined fairways 'frame' the golf shots into small firm greens which demand shot making with many of the holes going both right and left making this one a 'Player's' favorite! Colonial Country Club is the Texas version of 'Hogan's Alley'. Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson grew up in the greater Ft. Worth area as caddies and both went on to become greats of the game. Hogan won the first Colonial Invitational in 1946 and went on to win four times last win here in 1959. (Click here to see our Slide Show of Colonial CC)