About
Fields Ranch East draws its style and cues from the surrounding north Texas landscape, providing a compelling strategic challenge for all golfers. These organic advantages include rolling topography, dry washes, and the meandering Panther Creek.
Smallish greens with gentle rolls, strong slopes, and false edges place a premium on accurate approach shots. The bunkers are naturally rough-hewn and blend in with the surrounding prairie grasses. The fairways use the same grass as the rough, allowing the corridors to be widened or narrowed based on required conditions for championship golf or day-to-day play. Finally, the ribbon tees can be dynamic, providing multiple options and variety for daily course setup. Outside the ropes, there is enough room for spectators typical of championship golf.
In essence, Fields Ranch East provides strategic variety while incorporating the natural beauty of the property. The result is a championship-level golf course that will challenge and thrill golfers for years to come.
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Par
6,604
Yardage
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Hole 1
5
Par
526
Yardage
The preferred tee shot over Panther Creek is to the left of the four fairway bunkers on the right. Those laying up will contend with more trouble to the right looking for the best angle into the small, elevated, and left to right sloping green. Going for it in two brings a series of bunkers front and left into play.
Hole 2
4
Par
388
Yardage
The tee shot is uphill to a fairway with bunkers on both sides of the landing area. Carrying the right-side bunker requires a shorter drive, but the slope pushes shots farther right, leaving a more difficult uphill approach. The green sits on one of the highest spots on the course, bracketed by sand, and sloped left to right.
Hole 3
5
Par
515
Yardage
After a forced carry over water and a large native area, the fairway angles left past a crescent of bunkers. More bunkering strung across the fairway threatens those going for it in two. The lay-up area is short of those bunkers on the left side, leaving a wedge into a green with a large front-right bunker and sharp fall-off to the left.
Hole 4
3
Par
154
Yardage
A challenging par-3 from an elevated tee to a right-to-left angled green. The green is protected in front by two deep bunkers short and one bunker long. The green provides numerous interesting and challenging hole locations and a steep fall-off at the back adds to the green’s difficulty.
Hole 5
4
Par
428
Yardage
There’s nothing but trouble on the right side, with Panther Creek and a penalty area lurking, but it’s the better position for finding the elevated green. Four big bunkers—two well short and one on either side of the green—can mess with the player’s proper judgment of distance; going long will leave an especially tricky putt from the back shelf of the green.
Hole 6
4
Par
442
Yardage
Staying to the right, while avoiding the dry creek on that side, sets up a more open approach: Simply carry a giant free-form bunker well short of the green and the ball should kick toward the surface. From the left side, the approach has to carry a closer bunker and doesn’t get the benefit of a downslope assist. The green is large and is one of the more gentler sloping ones on the course.
Hole 7
4
Par
317
Yardage
Longer players will definitely think about trying to drive the green, especially if the tee is moved forward, but there’s plenty of trouble facing those who don’t thread the needle between bunkers. The lay-up area is short of the cross bunkers to the left, but there’s still more sand to contend with and holding the raised, L-shaped green requires avoiding the sharp rise in front and fall-offs to the rear.
Hole 8
3
Par
171
Yardage
Perched just beyond dramatic wetlands, this bluff-top green falls away in all directions while angling from front-left to back-right, with bunkers short and right disguising the slope. The large chipping area to the right is an acceptable miss.
Hole 9
5
Par
484
Yardage
Wetlands to the left off the tee and Panther Creek to the right put pressure on finding the fairway. Trying to get home in two is only for the brave, as the green is raised, surrounded by bunkers, and anything short or right will find the water. Laying up poses its own challenges as the creek meanders down the entire right side and bunkers left shrink the preferred landing zone. The green slopes from back to front and provides many challenges.
Hole 10
4
Par
351
Yardage
The tee shot plays to a plateau fairway that falls toward wetlands on the right, with bunkers and out of bounds to the left. The best landing area is between two left side fairway bunkers, earning a short approach; landing short of the bunkers leaves a longer second shot that’s partially blind. The horseshoe shaped green has bunkers and a drop-off front and right as well as lots of internal slopes.
Hole 11
4
Par
371
Yardage
Three bunkers form a triangle in the fairway and Panther Creek looms on the right side, so the key decision is where to place the tee shot. Playing short or past the right fairway bunker gives the best angle for a second shot, but brings the creek into play. Going left leaves a short second shot but at an awkward angle. Flying the left bunkers leaves the shortest pitch to the green, but has the smallest margin for error. Then there’s the perched green, the smallest on the course and severely sloped.
Hole 12
4
Par
417
Yardage
A good tee shot will avoid the wetlands on the right and a grove of trees and sandy wash area on the left. Right is preferred because the more the player avoids the wetlands, the longer the second shot and the more a bunker short and left of the large green comes into play. A large green provides numerous hole locations.
Hole 13
3
Par
185
Yardage
This uphill par-3 in the corner of the property usually plays into the wind. Bunkers wrap halfway around the large, forward-sloping green, from front-left to back-right, with the front and right side open.
Hole 14
5
Par
517
Yardage
The blind tee shot is over a ridge to a pitched left to right sloping fairway. Fairway bunkers large and small can affect the second shot, with the most aggressive play being to the left side leaving a short wedge in. The narrow green sits on an “island” created by a spur off the creek, demanding precise control whether approached with the second shot or third—or worse.
Hole 15
4
Par
316
Yardage
It may be a short hole, but vast areas of sand are massed in the front of the green, which sits on a ridge. Missing the green to any side will leave a tricky recovery, and the putting surface hides its own secrets.
Hole 16
4
Par
456
Yardage
Even without any bunkers on the entire hole, this fairway can be hard to hold as it slopes sharply left to right toward Panther Creek. A ridge about 40 yards short and left of the large, square green can kick second shots forward, but the creek lurks along the right side, ready to catch wayward shots.
Hole 17
3
Par
123
Yardage
The shortest hole on the course plays across a wetland to a wide, shallow green lined across the front with sand. Expect at least one day’s hole location to be in the long, thin stretch of green to the right, perilously close to the bunker and wetland.
Hole 18
4
Par
443
Yardage
The tee shot’s final location in relation to the centerline bunker sets up how the rest of the hole is played. Carrying the bunker or getting near the wetlands to the left are rewarded with a better angle or shorter approach. The elevated green sits behind Panther Creek, slopes back to front, and has bunkers left and long.