GOLF’s latest High 100 Programs within the U.S. rating contains 11 newcomers, together with Trinity Forest in Dallas, Texas.
Evan Schiller
GOLF not too long ago launched its newest rating of the High 100 Programs within the U.S. (2024-25), a listing that features 11 newcomers. A few of them you would possibly know. Others you won’t. Right here, in our newcomer spotlights, we’ll introduce you to those rookie High 100 gems.
Newcomer highlight: Trinity Forest / Rank: 96th
Location: Dallas, Texas
Sort: Non-public
Yr opened: 2016
Architect: Invoice Coore, Ben Crenshaw
What it’s worthwhile to find out about Trinity Forest
Simply south of town middle, this course shares lots of the similar enjoying traits of the Outdated Course at St. Andrews. The bottom is rumpled, and far of the enjoyable is derived from watching balls disappear over humps or down into swales — and questioning if they’ll reappear. Superintendent Kasey Kauff retains Trinity’s Zoysia fairways at lightning pace, which means making an attempt to keep up management of your ball over these frictionless surfaces is sort of the problem. The PGA Tour carried out an occasion right here for a number of years through the wet season, dishonest viewers from appreciating how fascinating — and strategic — this Coore & Crenshaw design actually is. At present, the nines are once more performed within the sequence that Coore & Crenshaw meant, which signifies that the brief par-3 seventeenth, with its progressive double punchbowl inexperienced, is within the climactic place it deserves.
What our raters say
“Coore and Crenshaw initially pledged to solely construct golf programs in a minimalist type on nice websites and so they did so with nice success, exploiting the pure values of the land to the nth diploma. Right here, on a dismal website (a landfill) they fabricated options to create basic technique. It’s a actual tour de power with excellent inexperienced complexes and intelligent bunkering. The course shines when maintained quick and agency.”
