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DALLAS NEWS SPORTS DAY: Local Links: Trinity Forest Gets Environmental Award (Type: articles)
Golf Digest bestowed its 2018 Green Star award on Trinity Forest Golf Club for outstanding environmental practices.
The magazine praised Trinity Forest developers for the turfgrass used on this course that was developed to be sustainable with less irrigation and less use of chemicals. The scruffy look also requires less grooming than a typical private country club. Course designers Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw achieved their goal of building a course that would play hard and fast.
Trinity Forest, which will host the AT&T Byron Nelson May 17-20, is the first U.S. golf course to be grassed with a new dwarf variety of Zoysiagrass, the magazine said. The grass was renamed Trinity Zoysia by its developer, David Doguet of Bladerunner Farms in Poteet, Texas.
LOCAL GOLFER: Trinity Forest: The New Home of the Byron Nelson (Type: articles)
When he first saw the Dallas property that he and partner Ben Crenshaw would turn into the new Trinity Forest Golf Club—a drab, treeless, 165-acre tabletop city dump perched above the tree-lined Trinity River—golf architect Bill Coore ignored the abandoned refrigerators and scattered tires to focus on the flow of the land. It was a series of ridges and ripples formed as parts of the closed landfill settled over time. “It needed a good ironing,” Coore joked. In the end his construction crew, though capping the site with a thick layer of sand in which to grow grass and create wasteland roughs, took pains to preserve every dip, trough, hump and hollow. 
With firm, running L1F Zoysia fairways, Champion Bermuda greens and wisps of Buffalograss in the rough, Trinity Forest plays best in parched conditions. As with any Coore & Crenshaw layout, it’s designed for lots of bump-and-run shots. When the private club hosts its first AT&T Byron Nelson Championship in May (the 50th anniversary of that event), the question will be whether the pros can adapt to that style. There’s nothing else quite like it on the PGA Tour.
GOLFADVISOR: Trinity Forest’s Trinity Zoysia Presents a British Open Sensibility, says Golf Advisor (Type: articles)
Trinity Forest: New AT&T Byron Nelson host will force pros to think
DALLAS — The latest addition to the PGA Tour circuit is unlike your standard tournament golf course.
Trinity Forest Golf Club, the new home to the AT&T Byron Nelson, is a 7,370-yard, par-71 layout designed by the team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. Forget about a well-coifed, lush look with bunkers lining the fairways and everything right in front of you. This one looks more like a holdover from an aerial bomb-drop exercise. Tour players will have to look long and hard to find what they need to maneuver around.
The 18-hole golf course is part of a new private club that occupies an abandoned landfill nine miles south of downtown Dallas. All told, it comprises 400 acres of floodplain, forest and capped construction debris, now built out to include a massive practice range that’s home to the Cameron McCormick Altus Performance Institute and a nine-hole par-3 course that serves the First Tee of Greater Dallas. The facility sits at the center of the 6,000-acre (9.4 square mile) Trinity Forest, the largest urban woodland in the country.
The course has the scruffy, links-inspired look that Coore & Crenshaw have honed at leading resort courses like Streamsong Red in Florida, Bandon Trails in Oregon and Sand Valley in Wisconsin. Except that they all occupy compelling terrain. Trinity Forest occupies relatively flat ground, with no more than 20 feet of elevation change across the site.
When Coore & Crenshaw first assessed the land, it did not show much promise. But club co-founder and president Jonas Woods, a real estate investor and commercial investment manager with experience in buying and developing golf properties in the area, proved persuasive, not least because he was closely allied with movers and shakers in town, including city officials interested in converting the abandoned landfill for community recreation.
GCM: Trinity Forest Golf Club earns Green Star environmental award (Type: articles)
Built atop a landfill, the 18-hole course just south of Dallas was designed with sustainability in mind.
Golf Digest has awarded its 2018 Green Star award for outstanding environmental practices to Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas.
Trinity Forest Golf Club is the first golf course in the United States to be grassed (everywhere but the greens) with a new dwarf variety of zoysiagrass, christened Trinity zoysiagrass by its developer, David Doguet of Bladerunner Farms in Poteet, Texas. Trinity was developed to require less water, less chemicals and less grooming.
Trinity Forest Golf Club features pockets of low-maintenance “blackland prairie” rough. Director of grounds Kasey Kauff, a 15-year GCSAA member, came up with the concept, a combination of 40 species of native Texas grasses and wildflowers irrigated solely by rain and that serves as habitat for an assortment of wildlife.
Trinity Forest Golf Club will host the PGA Tour’s 50th anniversary AT&T Byron Nelson Classic May 17-20. (Published 4/23/18)
MANILA TIMES: Trinity Forest Golf Club Wins Environmental Award (Type: articles)
Golf Digest bestowed its 2018 Green Star award on Trinity Forest Golf Club for outstanding environmental practices.
The magazine
praised Trinity Forest developers for the turfgrass used on this course that was developed to be sustainable with less irrigation and less use of chemicals. The scruffy look also requires less grooming than a typical private country club. Course designers Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw achieved their goal of building a course that would play hard and fast.
Trinity Forest, which will host the AT&T Byron Nelson May 17 to 20, is the first U.S. golf course to be grassed with a new dwarf variety of Zoysiagrass, the magazine said. The grass was renamed Trinity Zoysia by its developer, David Doguet of Bladerunner Farms in Poteet, Texas.
GOLF DIGEST: TRINITY FOREST IS PRESENTED WITH GOLF DIGEST’S 2018 GREEN STAR ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD (Type: articles)
The world changed with the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945. That day, the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated at a test site in New Mexico, and the future has been clouded ever since.
We’re not sure how much the golf world will change when Trinity Forest Golf Club is unveiled to the world this May as the new host of the PGA Tour’s Byron Nelson Classic. But we are certain the course will have a far-reaching impact on those who see and play it. Enough impact that Golf Digest is awarding its 2018 Green Star award for outstanding environmental practices to Trinity Forest.
This is a golf course that’s unique in many respects. For starters, this 18, just 12 minutes south of downtown Dallas, was built atop a landfill, always a noble community service for golf, although such endeavors rarely result in a course of tournament caliber. Trinity Forest is good enough that there are murmurs that it could someday host a major championship or Ryder Cup. That’s a long way off, to be sure, given the full dance cards of the various bodies of golf, but when was the last time anyone spoke of any Texas course in such terms?
Also, it’s an exclusive private course developed with heavy corporate involvement in an inner city locale. That makes Trinity Forest the East Lake of Dallas. Yet it’s scruffy around the edges, with unpaved paths and mottled rough, looking far more like a municipal course than a high-end private club. And that’s by design, for the turfgrass used on this course was developed to be sustainable with less water, less chemicals and less grooming and thus will never produce the lush green cosmetics normally associated with private country club golf.
What’s more, it’s seasonal in nature, than when it’s hard and dry, greener during the rainy months, with very little artificial irrigation applied. Look closely at Trinity Forest. It may well be the future look for all golf in America, public and private.
Golf Course Trades: AT&T Byron Nelson 50th Anniversary New Grass, Trinity Zoysia (Type: articles)
AT&T Byron Nelson 50th Anniversary New Grass, Trinity Zoysia, Named for New Course Location, Trinity Forest Golf Club
Sustainability, Environmental Stewardship Combine for Firm, Fast Surfaces with Lots of Ball Roll
It’s all new this year for the 50th Anniversary of the tournament in recent years known as the AT&T Byron Nelson. A new golf course location, Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas, serves as the new venue. A new grass is on the tees, fairways and green surrounds, named Trinity Zoysia for the club that was the first in the world to plant the sustainable grass wall-to-wall. Trinity Forests’ use of this grass highlights the club’s goal of environmental stewardship. Trinity Zoysia requires less water, less fertilizer than most other golf turf and the golf course is built on the site of a former landfill.
The tournament runs May 14-20, 2018, and PGA Tour players, as well as the television audience at home, get their first look at this links-style course designed by Bill Coore and former PGA Tour Pro, Ben Crenshaw. Golf Course Superintendent Kasey Kauff oversaw the grow-in of the golf course and said, if the weather is dry, he expects playing conditions to be fast, firm and challenging.
“It’s all about the firmness of the grass. If it’s 95 degrees, and there’s wind and no rain, that grass will dry out and turn brown but that’s the beauty of the grass. We don’t really care that the grass is uniformly green, that’s not really our philosophy. Our philosophy is it’s okay to be a little bit brown,” Kauff said. “The cool thing about Trinity Zoysia is we can turn the irrigation off and we’ve had this stuff so dry before and it bounces right back when we put the water back on. It’s turned brown before in 100 degrees outside and when we turn the water on it greens right back.”
TURFMATE: New Grass–Trinity Zoysia (Type: articles)
It’s all new this year for the 50th Anniversary of the tournament in recent years known as the AT&T Byron Nelson.
A new golf course location, Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas, serves as the new venue. A new grass is on the tees, fairways and green surrounds, named Trinity Zoysia for the club that was the first in the world to plant the sustainable grass wall-to-wall. Trinity Forests’ use of this grass highlights the club’s goal of environmental stewardship. Trinity Zoysia requires less water, less fertilizer than most other golf turf and the golf course is built on the site of a former landfill.
The tournament runs May 14-20, 2018, and PGA Tour players, as well as the television audience at home, get their first look at this links-style course designed by Bill Coore and former PGA Tour Pro, Ben Crenshaw.
Golf Course Superintendent Kasey Kauff oversaw the grow-in of the golf course and said, if the weather is dry, he expects playing conditions to be fast, firm and challenging.
“It’s all about the firmness of the grass. If it’s 95 degrees, and there’s wind and no rain, that grass will dry out and turn brown but that’s the beauty of the grass. We don’t really care that the grass is uniformly green, that’s not really our philosophy. Our philosophy is it’s okay to be a little bit brown,” Kauff said. “The cool thing about Trinity Zoysia is we can turn the irrigation off and we’ve had this stuff so dry before and it bounces right back when we put the water back on. It’s turned brown before in 100 degrees outside and when we turn the water on it greens right back.”
This ability to stay fast and firm, even in the harsh, dry Dallas weather, means the grass will have a direct impact on play. Ball roll on the fairway, for example, could go further compared to most of the courses on the Tour.
Turfnet: Kevin Ross with Kasey Kauff-Building Trinity Forest Golf Club (Type: articles)
Kasey Kauff talks about the AT&T Byron Nelson and what the pros need to know to play Trinity Forest. Grassed with Trinity Zoysia, the turf’s density and playability will be a factor on the windy links-style course.
Zoysia Is Sustainable (Type: articles)
February 6, 2018 – Golf Course Industry Show 2018
Golf Course Architect Tripp Davis, who redesigned Oak Hills CC in San Antonio, says superintendents want a grass that is sustainable and he recommends zoysia for its low inputs.