Tournament Destinations

Outstanding facilities that have hosted the TGWA Annual Meeting and Championship include:

2005 – Westin Stonebriar Resort/North Dallas
2004 – Houstonian Hotel and Redstone Golf Club, Humble
2003 – Four Seasons Resort and Club, Irving
2002 – Westin LaCantera Resort, San Antonio
2001 – Four Seasons Resort and Club, Irving
2000 – The Woodlands Executive Conference Center and The TPC at The Woodlands
1999 – Four Seasons Resort and Club, Irving
1998 – Del Lago Resort, Montgomery
1997 – Four Seasons Resort and Club, Irving
1996 – Bentwater Yacht and CC, Montgomery
1995 – Four Seasons Resort and Club, Irving
1994 –Tapatio Springs Resort, Boerne
1993 – Four Seasons Resort and Club, Irving
1992 – Barton Creek Resort, Austin
1991 – Hyatt Bear Creek, DFW Airport
1990 – The Woodlands Conference Center and TPC at The Woodlands
1989 – The Hills of Lakeway, Austin
1988 – No tournament
1987 – Inaugural meeting @ Cottonwood Valley, Waco

THE WESTIN STONEBRIAR RESORT’S FAZIO GOLF COURSE

Host site of the 2005 TGWA Annual Meeting & Championship

FRISCO, TX . . . Located just 30 minutes from downtown Dallas, but far enough removed from the congestion of the big city, the Westin Stonebriar Resort’s Tom Fazio course covers acres of gorgeous North Texas countryside. The peace and quiet of the Frisco area allows for a more remote feeling, similar to that of Hill Country courses. Golf enthusiasts and meeting planners enjoy the convenient D/FW location, just a three-hour flight from either coast.

One of the most noteworthy and celebrated course designers in the world, Tom Fazio designed the Stonebriar Fazio course to reflect the natural beauty of the flora and fauna characteristic of this area. Since 1972, Fazio has designed over 120 prestigious golf courses around the United States, including Shadow Creek, Las Vegas, NV; Black Diamond, Lecanto, FL, Estancia, Scottsdale, AZ and World Woods, Homosassa, FL. Fazio was voted Best Modern Day Golf Course Architect for each of the three years that Golf Digest conducted the poll. In addition, in 1995, Fazio received the highest recognition awarded by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, The Old Tom Morris Award. Fazio is one of only two architects who have received this honor.

“The fact that only hotel guests and Stonebriar Country Club members are able to play the course is what sets us apart from area public courses,” noted The Westin Stonebriar Resort General Manager Craig Sundell. Says Sundell, “Minimal play on a course oftentimes means there is less slow play, and the course will stay in better condition.”

Located in Legacy Park, The Westin Stonebriar Resort is nestled on 322 acres just north of Dallas. The resort features 301 luxurious rooms and suites, a Tom Fazio-designed championship golf course and a lagoon-style pool. Other amenities include a golf pro shop, Legacy Grill, Ernie’s Bar, 24-room service, the poolside AquaBar Grill, 24,000 square feet of meeting space, Fitness Center Powered by Reebok and Face & Body Resort Spa.

ABOUT THE FAZIO GOLF COURSE

To paraphrase the recent article in Cigar Aficionado (“A Master By Design,” 10/99 issue) Tom Fazio is walking in the footsteps of Donald Ross, A.W. Tillinghat and Alister MacKenzie, golf’s pantheon of Rembrandts.

The Westin Stonebriar Resort’s Fazio Course joins Pinehurst #8, Shadow Creek, Wade Hampton, The Quarry at La Quinta and other top courses created by America’s consensus number one golf course designer.

As the hole descriptions note below, he improves on what nature gives, providing a core golf experience that is devoid of the usual distractions. Instead, you will find dramatic landforms, subtly contoured greens, native grass border areas and masterful but fair bunkering in a landscaped environment that looks long finished and evolved.

HOLE #1: Par 4,365 yards
A short opening hole with a gradual downhill grade. The landing area is pinched by ridge and fairway bunker. Mid-size green guarded by bunkers to the left and a stream to the back right.

HOLE #2: Par 4,407 yards
Tee shot plays over a wetland to an elevated landing area. Drive must be played to the left of a ribbon bunker above the stream. Approach shot must carry a narrow stream short of the green. A bunker on the left guards greens’ complex.

HOLE #3: Par 5,577 yards
Tee shot is protected by bunker left and grassy depression right. Second shot must avoid large bunkers left of the approach area. Twin bunkers catch short misses left of this elevated green.

HOLE #4: Par 4,444 yards
Entire hole framed with native grasses and trees. Aim tee shot at the fairway bunkers right and draw it around corner. Green is guarded by a bunker on the left.

HOLE #5: Par 4,412 yards
The elevated tees play into the prevailing wind. Tee shot must be straight to avoid forshortened bunkers left and right of the dogleg. Tabletop green has a bunker on the left, so bail out to the right.

HOLE #6: Par 3,142
Short hole with accuracy needed off the tee. Short tee shots will find bunkers left and right of the green.

HOLE #7: Par 5,545 yards
A straight, downwind hole. Tee shot must carry a created wetland. Wetland continues down entire left side of the fairway. Bunkers high right of the first dogleg. Green can be reached in two with a rolling approach, if a trio of bunkers protecting left and right of the green can be negotiated.

HOLE #8: Par 3,201 yards
Tee shot must carry over a pond to large green guarded with a large beach bunker short left of the green. Short shots find water on the left or a chipping area to the right.

HOLE #9: Par 4,429 yards
Medium length hole with dogleg guarded by a large fairway bunker and landform on the right. An accurate approach shot is needed as bunkers left and right guard the elevated green. A stream is waiting to collect shots that run through the green.

Out: Par 36; 3,522 yards

HOLE #10: Par 3,191 yards
Green nestled in between native grasses and landforms. Short right shots find bunkers guarding the front of the green. Green slopes from left to right.

HOLE #11: Par 4,411 yards
A short par 4 playing into the prevailing wind. Drive must avoid lake on the right that runs the entire length of the hole. The green, contoured from left to right, sits precariously close to the water’s edge.

HOLE #12: Par 5,552 yards
Straight, downwind hole with berms to the right while a created wetland looms on the left. Hazards are at a minimum until you get into the small well-guarded green. Bunkers short right and left prevent you from running balls to the green.

HOLE #13: Par 4,449 yards
A long, slightly uphill hole that plays into the prevailing wind. Long drives may find the fairway bunkers, which project into the fairway on the right. The green is protected with bunkers left and right with chipping areas in front and back.

HOLE #14: Par 4,420 yards
A lake runs the entire length of the right side. A sliced tee shot form the elevated tees will surely find water. Bunkers to the left and a sloping fairway put a premium on an accurate drive. A long, flat green sits near the waters edge that rolls of on all sides.

HOLE #15: Par 3, 158 yards
Short par three offers a break with a short iron. A bunker fronting the left side of the green is the only obstacle into this smallish green.

HOLE #16: Par 4,322 yards
Short hole that plays to a tight landing area with a bunker on the right. A left front bunker protects small undulating green. Green slopes form back left to front.

HOLE #17: Par 4,429 yards
Tee shots must avoid low-lying lake to the left. The longer the drive, the less water you will need to carry to reach the elevated green. Short left approaches will find water or a greenside bunker.

HOLE #18: Par 5,557 yards
Trees and bunkers pinch in on the right side of the dogleg. Second shot plays to a semi-blind plateau that is well guarded by bunkers on the right. Bunkers left of the green catch misses short and left.

IN: Par 35; 3,489 yards
OUT: Par 36: 3,522 yards
TOTAL: Par 71; 7,001 yards