Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas is a five-star golf resort

Golf resort

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 that is located just a few miles north of Dallas, in the hills of Irving

Irving, Texas

Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...

, Texas

Texas

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. It is operated by Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

Four Seasons Hotels, Inc. is a Canadian-based international ultra-luxury, five-star hotel management company. Travel + Leisure magazine and Zagat Survey rank the hotel chain's 84 properties among the top luxury hotels worldwide...

 and is the only AAA

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 Five Diamond resort and club in Texas.

The resort contains a 431 room hotel

Hotel

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, two restaurant

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s, lounge bars

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, a spa

Spa

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, and an array of leisure facilities, including a swimming pool

Swimming pool

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, gym

Gym

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, tennis court

Tennis court

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s and two golf course

Golf course

A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes...

s, featuring a Tournament Players Club

Tournament Players Club

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 course, TPC Las Colinas, that hosts the PGA Tour

PGA Tour

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's annual HP Byron Nelson Championship.

The Dallas Morning News reported on January 13th, 2010 that the lenders have filed for foreclosure on the property, seeking repayment of a $183 million loan.

Golf

The Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas is known for its golf

Golf

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 facilities, which includes the TPC Las Colinas championship course that was designed by Jay Morrish in consultation with Byron Nelson

Byron Nelson

John Byron Nelson, Jr. was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946.Nelson and two other well known golfers of the time, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, were born within seven months of each other in 1912...

 and Ben Crenshaw

Ben Crenshaw

Ben Daniel Crenshaw is an American professional golfer.Crenshaw was born in Austin, Texas. He attended and played golf at Austin High School and the University of Texas, where he won three NCAA Championships from 1971 to 1973...

. The course was constructed as a TPC stadium course, incorporating nine holes from the original Las Colinas Sports Club layout. Since it opened in 1986, it has been the venue for the PGA Tour's Byron Nelson Golf Classic, now known as the HP Byron Nelson Championship.

Starting in 1994, the PGA Tour has also made use of the resort's second course, Cottonwood Valley, for the first two rounds of the Byron Nelson Championship in order to lessen the impact of weather delays. This course was also designed by Jay Morrish this time alongside renowned golf course architect Robert Trent Jones, Jr.

Robert Trent Jones, Jr.

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The resort also includes the Byron Nelson Golf School, a driving range

Driving range

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and other practice facilities.

External links

• Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas

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