Featured Stop: Omni PGA Frisco Fields Ranch

This week, Fried Egg paid a visit to Omni PGA Frisco, the two-course resort tied to the PGA of America’s headquarters in the northern Dallas suburb of Frisco. The resulting video is a typically brilliant dive into the architecture at Gil Hanse-designed Fields Ranch East, the championship course that will play host to the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship this year and the men’s PGA Championship in 2027 (and has been angling for the 2041 Ryder Cup). So let’s talk about Frisco as a golf trip locale.

First, the golf. As Andy Johnson and guest caddie Bones break down, it is quite challenging on the East. The course is long and slope-y, with a variety of ways to wind up accidentally—excuse the pun—boned. “This is a golf course where there is a ton to learn,” the former Phil and JT caddie tells Andy. Amen to that. When we made a day trek to Frisco last year, none of our foursome had seen the course before, and though our handicaps ranged from mid-single to low-double digits, nobody managed to break 90. The wind, as it often is, was up—and we blew away.

Fields Ranch West is a more accessible test. Designed by Beau Welling, the wider fairways and “roller coaster greens” present a “swashbuckling, playable alter-ego” to the East course, Golf Digest says. But it’s the East that has started to gain recognition as one of the top public courses in the U.S.—it ranks in the mid-60s at GOLF and Golfweek, and one would give it a solid chance to breach GD‘s new rankings when they drop this year.

You will not play either without shelling out significant cash. Where you may get a first-mover discount teeing it up at other new golf resorts, PGA Frisco did not hold back in immediately assigning top-of-market greens fees. It’ll set you back $379 to play East and $310 to play west (update 7/2/25: current rates look to be $340/$275). The resort’s website hints at (but doesn’t actually reveal) group rates. You’re not required to stay on site, but it presents a logistical challenge not to, as public tee times are only available seven days out.

For the most well-funded of trips, these luxury ranch houses sit just about as close to the first tee as the clubhouse. They have a backyard consisting of fire pits and The Dance Floor, a Hanse and Welling-designed putting green two football fields long. That’s one way PGA Frisco is clearly trying to cater to destination golf. Among the others: The lighted, 10-hole short course known as The Swing; hitting bays at an on-site bar known as Ice House; and a Topgolf lounge with various “simulation experiences.” If you’ve got the money to blow, you could certainly do much, much worse.

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