WEIBRING-WOLFARD IN THE NEWS

If DA Weibring's plan ever comes to fruition, similar scenes will take place annually. Weibring, who helped the Salesmanship Club organize Monday's event ...

Tournament officials turned to DA Weibring to get creative. "They wanted to have a Legends Pro-Am and asked if I would help and I was happy to.

Weibring Wolfard wins Golf Inc. Golf Course redesign of the year award 2008.

The eight-month wait is over for Wichita Falls Country Club golfers.  The $3.5 million course renovation by Weibring-Wolfard Golf Design, is completed, and an estimated 144 golfers will tee off in an 11 a.m. grand opening shotgun start today on the WFCC course, which has been completely shut down since April 1.

D.A. got rave reviews at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship for the course remodeling performed by his company, Golf Resources Group.

Weibring often has carried notes in his pocket during a career that has spanned three decades.

A Woodford County family is moving forward with a project that will bring a new, 18-hole championship golf course to Metamora by summer of 2010, designed by Weibring-Wolfard Golf Design.

In the wake of rave reviews on the TPC Four Seasons at Las Colinas, D.A. Weibring/Golf Resources Group has changed its name to Weibring-Wolfard Golf Design. D.A. Weibring and Steve Wolfard have done more than 100 projects together.

Two of the Tour’s young guns dueled in a three-hole playoff to baptize the Byron Nelson’s testy new layout, with Adam Scott the last man standing.

Adam Scott picks up his sixth PGA Tour victory, the EDS Byron Nelson Championship, with a Texas-size putt in a playoff with Ryan Moore.

The Four Seasons Resort in Irving serving as the backdrop for this weekend’s final rounds of the EDS Byron Nelson Championship is getting a $190 million transformation. The project includes the addition of as many as 80 luxury condominiums.

Overall, Luke Donald likes the TPC makeover. But there are some tweaks he wouldn’t mind seeing.

Ron Rittenmeyer insists he wasn’t bluffing when he warned the PGA Tour commissioner he’d better help if EDS was going to keep writing checks on a tournament that’s made more than $100 million for charity.

The Byron Nelson Classic has struggled since the death of its namesake, but organizers are hoping a player-driven redesign will get it back on track.

Last April 29, the reviews ranged from diplomatic to scathing. Players left the final round of the EDS Byron Nelson Championship grumbling about the bumpy, brown-patched greens.

D.A. Weibring is watching a three-ring circus this week. The Champions Tour player is keeping an eye on his own leaderboard at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, where he’s currently tied for 18th. He’s also spying on his son Matt’s progress at the Nationwide Tour’s Henrico County Open, Matt’s first event of the season. Then there’s the EDS Byron Nelson Championship, Weibring’s project over the past 20 months since he was the man behind the renovations at the TPC Las Colinas course.

Ever since the tournament bearing his name started 40 years ago, golf legend Byron Nelson cared more about it than anything he’d ever accomplished. But in April 2007, less than a year after his death, his tournament was in turmoil.

At the TPC Four Seasons at Las Colinas on Monday, it seemed that the drugs had taken effect. "These are some of the best greens I’ve seen," Tour player Troy Matteson said after walking off 18.

Super sized spade let course workers cut a giant job down to size. During the renovation of the TPC Four Seasons at Las Colinas last summer, 165 trees were moved from one spot to another on the property. Some were small, others up to 60 feet tall.

Water abounds at par-4 11th and 18th, where course designers tried to tempt aggressive players and draw out the drama

In 1968, the biggest names in golf gathered at exclusive Preston Trail Golf Club in North Dallas. They had come to honor Byron Nelson before the inaugural tournament bearing his name.

D.A. Weibring’s redesign of the TPC Four Seasons at Las Colinas may not look dramatic to casual fans. But it will to players because Weibring used their suggestions. They will like how the angles have been shifted to reflect the increase in distance of today’s players.

Course designer D.A. Weibring details changes, as told to staff writer Bill Nichols
Click here to download The new front nine.

Enhancing par-3’s popularity is key as event looks to reclaim lost luster. The Salesmanship Club basically wrote the manual for staging PGA Tour events. The EDS Byron Nelson Championship had the sport’s greatest ambassador as its recruiter, the lavish Four Seasons Resort and Club, and hundreds of volunteers responsible for spoiling players.

Course designer D.A. Weibring details changes, as told to staff writer Bill Nichols.
Click here to download The new back nine.

Water abounds at the par-4 11th and 18th, where course designers tried to tempt aggressive players and draw out the drama.

The EDS Byron Nelson Championship didn’t get any big additions to the field at Friday’s deadline. But the big subtraction Nelson officials feared didn’t materialize either.

The TPC Four Seasons at Las Colinas redesign has spurred talk on the PGA Tour because nobody is really sure what to expect. Mulling his decision about the EDS Byron Nelson Championship, Sergio Garcia asked a local professional caddie to inspect the course.

Rebuilding a PGA Tour site from the ground up in time for the following year’s event is a daunting task when everything goes according to plan. When things do not go as expected, it can be a hair-raising experience that tests even the most experienced golf course superintendent.

For D.A. Weibring, the TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas renovation project had nothing to do with business. Sure, the outstanding changes and the subsequent publicity he’s sure to receive during the week of the EDS Byron Nelson Championship will propel he and his company, Golf Resources, Inc., to even greater heights in the course design industry. But for Weibring, the $10 million TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas renovation project meant a lot more to him.

Rebuilding a PGA Tour site from the ground up in time for the following year’s event is a daunting task when everything goes according to plan. When things do not go as expected, it can be a hair-raising experience that tests even the most experienced golf course superintendent.

About eight months ago, bulldozers sat motionless in the mud at the TPC Four Seasons at Las Colinas. Crews couldn’t work because of flooding. And D.A. Weibring was putting a positive spin on his remodeling job to Salesmanship Club members as rain pelted the roof.

J.J. Henry has been involved throughout the renovation project at the course that hosts the tournament bearing the late Byron Nelson’s name.

Fear not. The $10 million overhaul of the TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas golf course will be done in time for the annual EDS Byron Nelson Championship in late April.

The PGA Tour has approved the redesigned TPC Four Seasons at Las Colinas for the April 24-27 EDS Byron Nelson Championship.

The Byron Nelson Championship will be played on one course for the first time since 1993. PGA Tour and Four Seasons Resort officials said Friday the TPC course will be ready for the April 23-27 tournament after an $8 million redesign that began after last year’s event.

To lead the TPC Four Seasons at Las Colinas into the future, D.A. Weibring looked at the past. All the changes made by his Plano-based Golf Resources Group were tied to one theme - producing a layout he felt would have made the late Byron Nelson proud.

Weibring is no stranger to the Byron Nelson tournament, having played in 22 of them.

In taking the job of remodeling the TPC Four Seasons at Las Colinas, D.A. Weibring had 18 holes to shape and four bosses to please-the Four Seasons Resort and Club, EDS, the Salesmanship Club and the PGA Tour.