Planning a First Trip to PGA Frisco: Fields Ranch East vs. West

PGA Frisco isn't one golf course with two names on it. Fields Ranch East and Fields Ranch West are different designers, different ways to play, and different maintenance days, all inside the same DFW-area campus that's already confirmed as the host site for the 2027 PGA Championship. Checked against PGA Frisco's own site on November 2, 2026, here's what actually separates the two courses and what to line up before you book.

The two courses aren't interchangeable

Fields Ranch East is a Gil Hanse design, and it's the course hosting the 2027 PGA Championship, May 20-23, 2027, per the headline on PGA Frisco's own golf page. It's also a walking-only course: the site describes it as "a walking-only experience with a caddy reservation required for each player." A cart is allowed only with an approved medical exemption. Plan on a caddy fee and a walk, not a cart round, if East is the course you book.

Fields Ranch West is a Beau Welling design. PGA Frisco's site doesn't spell out a walking-only policy for West the way it does for East, which is the practical tell that West is the cart-friendly option of the two if your group isn't walking 18.

Maintenance closures run on different days for each course: Fields Ranch West is closed Tuesdays, Fields Ranch East is closed Wednesdays. A trip that only has one free day at PGA Frisco needs to check which course is actually open that day before locking in a tee time, not after.

What a round actually costs

This is the one number PGA Frisco's own site doesn't give up easily: no green fee or rental rate appears as page text on pgafrisco.com/golf as of November 2, 2026. Call the resort directly or check omnipgafriscoexperiences.com closer to your travel dates rather than planning a budget around a number that isn't published anywhere we could verify.

The driving range and practice greens aren't a public walk-up either: PGA Frisco's site restricts them to same-day Fields Ranch guests ahead of their own tee time, not general visitors.

If you want to stay and play

The closest match to a stay-and-play package on PGA Frisco's own site right now is the PGA of America Coaching Center Signature Experience: a two-night stay at Omni PGA Frisco Resort & Spa paired with a two-day golf retreat built around hands-on instruction and on-course work with a PGA Professional, rather than a simple room-plus-round bundle. Group trips have their own path too, through Omni's group golf page linked from the same site.

The budget end of the same metro

PGA Frisco sits inside the same DFW golf range covered in DFW's Golf Range, which runs from Fort Worth's city munis up through PGA Frisco's major-championship build-out. If a trip to Frisco's two championship-caliber courses needs a cheaper round the day before or after, the City of Fort Worth's own municipal golf site lists the public-rate courses, Meadowbrook, Pecan Valley, and Rockwood Park among them, that fill that role without touching PGA Frisco's own green fee at all.

Before you book

Confirm three things directly with PGA Frisco or its booking site before a trip, since none of them are a number this article can give you from here: the current green fee for whichever course and time you want, whether a tee time is actually available on the day your trip allows, and if you're set on walking East, that a caddy is bookable for your group size.

For the rest of what's worth building a trip around, see Golf and the 19th Hole newsletter for when PGA Frisco's own rates or booking rules change. The puzzle books in the shop are built for the drive up I-35 as much as the flight home.