Fields Ranch Golf - East Golf Course

The Omni PGA Frisco Resort is absolutely amazing.... 2 acre putting green, par three course, amazing food and pools, and absolutely top notch hospitality and customer service.

This course will be home to many future mens and women's PGA championships as well as the 2041 Ryder Cup I believe. You must walk and use a caddy on this course which isn't exactly ideal in the 95 degree summer heat. I am not a huge fan of Texas golf as there is only so much you can do with the landscape. The condition of the course was fantastic. Had a really hard time reading the speed and undulation of the greens. I felt the design and layout were somewhat lacking and it really has no memorable or signature holes which was my biggest issue with the course and reason for the 4 star review. We played it at about 6700 yards. The course is laid out to where you can make the tips as far as you want to make them for the professional golfers... Even if that is 8000-8200 yards. For around $350-$380 to play plus $80 caddy fee plus $50 caddy tip, I felt this course was lacking in the value department. I wouldn't rank it in my top 40-50 courses I have played. Me and my playing partner both thought the west course was a much better and more fun and visually appealing course. Glad I played it and can say I played it but not a course I necessarily care about playing again In the future. Would love to go back to the resort though.

As professional golf becomes more and more alien to millions of recreational players, the requirements of championship golf design have become more and more challenging. At Fields Ranch East, Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner mostly succeeded in building a course that will test the best and beguile the rest.

The East typifies contemporary golf architecture’s two main focuses – on bunkering and green design. Some 90-plus large, deep bunkers lie in wait at seemingly every strategic turn, and the large, firm and fast putting surfaces lean on considerably contour to defend par. Golfers with a shaky short game may find themselves picking up on several holes, but should also be enough birdie opportunities to keep them interested, especially if they play the correct tees. Good thing, too; because the average pace of play (walking, with mandatory caddies) tops 5 hours, you wouldn’t want to be out there getting beaten up for that whole time. There are no weak holes until the awkward par-5 18th, but the run from 13 through 17 – long par 3, shortish par 5, short par 4, long par 4 – is the star here.