The PGA Tour is moving the AT&T Byron Nelson out of Trinity Forest Golf Club after the 2020 tournament in May, ending a star-crossed three-year run at the Bill Coore-Ben Crenshaw neo-links course south of downtown Dallas

An official announcement is scheduled for Sunday. The Dallas Morning News first reported the news late Saturday.

“I’ve been counting the days that this would happen,” Ryan Palmer, a Texas-born PGA Tour winner who lives in the Dallas suburbs, told GOLF.com.

“I may get in trouble for saying this, but there was no energy, no excitement, and no crowds to watch. We went from the No. 1 Tour event in excitement and charity giving to wherever we are now. This had to happen.”

Many factors contributed to the club’s demise as a Tour site, including unpredictable weather, a lack of shade, infrastructure and off-course hospitality venues, and a dearth of A-list players. All of that hurt the sponsoring Salesmanship Club of Dallas’ ability to raise funds for its charity, the Momentous Institute, which provides education and therapy services for local children and is the sole beneficiary of the event’s net proceeds.

Tyler Dennis, the Tour’s chief of operations, told the Morning News, that the Tour was evaluating other venues that would ensure a “premium fan experience.”

While the Tour has not yet selected a new North Texas site for 2021, the early favorite is a return to the TPC-Four Seasons Resort, which successfully played host to the event for 35 years.

“We have never shut that door on the relationship,” said Maura Allen Gast, executive director of the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau, which has been heavily involved in the event during its years in Dallas.

“We have said from the beginning we want what is best for the kids at the Momentous Institute and if that is the case we are happy,” Gast said.

Palmer supports the idea of returning the event to the recently renovated Las Calinas course at the TPC-Four Seasons.

“Just move it back to the Four Seasons and leave it there,” he said. “To look at the crowds and the people there, I wish I had a picture of the people there in our last year compared to Trinity Forest.”

The PGA of America is building two championship golf courses with architects Gil Hanse and Beau Welling in Frisco, just north of Dallas, but they will not be ready until at least 2022.

While the Salesmanship Club has run the tournament since 1969, using the namesake of local legend Byron Nelson, the date and authority to hold an event is owned by the PGA Tour.

The Tour informed Salesmanship Club and Trinity Forest officials in the fall that it was considering a course change, but a final decision was not made until last week.

“You know this doesn’t happen quickly, but it was finalized very recently,” a longtime Salesmanship Club member told GOLF.com.

Also uncertain is the status title sponsor AT&T, the prime corporation behind the move to Trinity Forest, which is close to its Dallas headquarters.

An AT&T spokesman told the Morning News that the company’s “commitment to the community and tournament continues today,” but also that its initial title sponsorship deal expires after the 2021 tournament.

AT&T is the largest sponsor in dollars on the PGA Tour with title sponsorships at the Byron Nelson and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February, plus a major TV sponsorship at the Masters in April.

The company used its considerable corporate leverage with the Tour to get the tournament moved away from the Four Seasons to Trinity Forest, a treeless design that opened in 2014 on City of Dallas land that was a former toxic landfill.

At the time Dallas mayor Mike Rawlins touted the project as a unique public-private partnership, but the name Tour players never came out, and the fans didn’t, either. The Salesmanship Club reported charitable donations dropped by more than half from what the Four Seasons event generated, down to less than $3 million a year.

Former PGA Tour winner Harrison Frazar, a Texas native who was heavily involved in Trinity Forest landing the Byron Nelson, said the fundraising struggles drove the final decision.

“It’s all about the kids and what is best for the event,” he said.

The 2018 tournament was won by then-rookie Aaron Wise, with only four of the top 20 players in the world competing. Only two of the top 20, Dallas’ Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka, competed in the 2019 event won by Sung Kang.

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Due to inclement weather on Saturday that delayed play, third round action at the AT&T Byron Nelson will finish up on Sunday before the final round gets underway at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas. The purse for the event is set at $7.9 million, with the winner’s share slated at $1.422 million.

With the second place finisher expected to earn $853,200, the third-place finisher will walk away with $537,200.

The payout breakdown for the top 70 in the field at the AT&T Byron Nelson is below.

AT&T Byron Nelson Payout Breakdown
1. $1,422,000
2. $853,200
3. $537,200
4. $379,200
5. $316,000
6. $284,400
7. $264,650
8. $244,900
9. $229,100
10. $213,300
11. $197,500
12. $181,700
13. $165,900
14. $150,100
15. $142,200
16. $134,300
17. $126,400
18. $118,500
19. $110,600
20. $102,700
21. $94,800
22. $88,480
23. $82,160
24. $75,840
25. $69,520
26. $63,200
27. $60,830
28. $58,460
29. $56,090
30. $53,720
31. $51,350
32. $48,980
33. $46,610
34. $44,635
35. $42,660
36. $40,685
37. $38,710
38. $37,130
39. $35,550
40. $33,970
41. $32,390
42. $30,810
43. $29,230
44. $27,650
45. $26,070
46. $24,490
47. $22,910
48. $21,646
49. $20,540
50. $19,908
51. $19,434
52. $18,960
53. $18,644
54. $18,328
55. $18,170
56. $18,012
57. $17,854
58. $17,696
59. $17,538
60. $17,380
61. $17,222
62. $17,064
63. $16,906
64. $16,748
65. $16,590
66. $16,432
67. $16,274
68. $16,116
69. $15,958
70. $15,800

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It was a long, wet day in Dallas, where play was delayed for hours and the third round is unfortunately still incomplete.

Here’s everything you missed from Saturday’s action at the AT&T Byron Nelson.

Thunderstorms caused a six-hour delay in Dallas on Saturday, pushing the starting times from 9:04 a.m. local time to 3:04 p.m. Unfortunately, that meant that a significant portion of the field was not able to finish the third round before darkness resulted in play being called for the day.

The final threesome of Sung Kang, Matt Every and Tyler Duncan finally teed off at 5:40 p.m. local time and managed to get through nine holes before darkness fell. The third round will resume at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, with the final round immediately following. The final round will have threesomes going off split tees between 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. local time on Sunday.

It would seem that no lead is safe on the PGA Tour these days. After firing a sizzling 61 on Friday (which tied the course record), Sung Kung was leading by four shots heading into Round 3. But his competitors continued the birdie barrage, especially Matt Every, who made the most significant statement thus far, going eagle-par-par-birdie-birdie-birdie (five under par) in his opening six holes, cutting Kang’s lead to a single shot. By the time he reached the ninth hole, Every was leading by one at 18 under par overall, after Kang bogeyed the par-3 8th.

Every has two career victories on the PGA Tour. His best finish this year is T3 at the Zurich Classic.

Trinity Forest has been yielding a lot of low scores thus far, but how about Nicholas Lindheim’s climb up the leaderboard?

The 34-year-old has one career top 10 on the PGA Tour, but is making a strong case to double that number this weekend. Lindheim has made nine birdies and no bogeys in 15 holes to launch himself 44 spots up the leaderboard into T7 at 12 under par overall. Now that’s what we call Moving Day.

Brooks Koepka isn’t swimming in red numbers like some of his peers in the third round. He’s currently one under par on the day through 10 holes, and 12 under par overall. That’s six shots back at the moment.

Henrik Stenson is four under on the day and 10 under overall through 11 holes, Jordan Spieth is three under on the day and 10 under overall through 11, and Patrick Reed is three under on the day and seven under overall through 17.

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Tyler Duncan, a 29-year-old pro in his second full year on the PGA Tour, is having a good week in Dallas. After firing two solid opening rounds of 64-66 at the AT&T Byron Nelson, he’s tied for second at 12 under par overall — four shots behind Sung Kang’s lead.

But on Friday, things nearly took an unfortunate turn. According to the PGA Tour, Duncan missed the green on the par-4 13th hole at Trinity Forest. His errant approach went right of the green, taking a bounce before hitting a spectator and settling about 33 yards away from the hole. Unbeknownst to Duncan, the spectator was his wife, Maria. In fact, he didn’t discover it was her until after he had completed his round.

“Took a big bounce and hit her, I guess,” Duncan said. “I didn’t know until after the round. … I’m just happy she’s not hurt, and I was with her a while ago.”

Duncan’s botched approach led to his only bogey of the day when he failed to get it up-and-down. He recovered well, though, playing his final five holes in one under par to finish five under par on the day.

Somewhat remarkably, Friday was not the first time Duncan’s wife had been struck by a golf ball.

“Not long after we started dating, she actually got hit in the head by another ball, a random ball from the driving range,” Duncan said. “She’s dodged two hits to the head. I’m sure most people can’t say that.” Duncan and his wife were married in 2017.

Duncan has yet to win a tournament on the PGA Tour, but he had two top-10 finishes last season. This year, his best finish is T22 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He’s in good position now to to improve upon that stat this week.

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Trinity Forest G.C., a Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw design, made its pro debut at last year’s AT&T Byron Nelson Classic, drawing high praise from players and pundits alike. Picture the rolling terrain and molded green complexes of a Pinehurst No. 2 dropped in the middle of Dallas’s south side, and you have Trinity Forest.

OPTIONS ABOUND at Trinity Forest, with the 315-yard par-4 fifth leading the charge. It looks like a piece of cake, but just because you can drive it pin-high doesn’t mean you’re entitled to birdie.

THE TEE SHOT makes the rare ask that you control your driver distance. You must fly the bunker situated 35 yards short of the green, but the ideal shot should barely carry that hazard, then trundle to the green’s front-right edge. Don’t go long; that’s where things get steep.

AROUND THE GREEN is where the intrigue (and treachery) becomes a reality: The narrow, crowned putting surface slopes away from its center in every direction. Last year, Jordan Spieth drove the green with his tee shot,then proceeded to hit his lag putt off the back—and he’s a member!

From off the green, Coore and Crenshaw are obsessed with options that create uncertainty; whichever you choose—putt, bump-and-run or fancy flop shot—commit fully.

THE LESSON here is to take what the course gives you. If you hit the perfect tee shot, go collect your birdie. If you go long or left off the box, don’t get too cute with the ensuing chip—the ball could end up back at your feet. Play to the middle of the green, two-putt for your par and live to fight another hole.

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With the PGA Championship just a week away, the Tour heads to Dallas this week for the AT&T Byron Nelson at Trinity Forest Golf Club. It’s the Tour’s third of four events in the Lone Star State this year.

Brooks Koepka, who finished as the runner-up at this event in 2016, is the betting favorite to win this week with 13/2 odds. Koepka is looking for his first win on Tour since coming out on top at the CJ Cup this past October. His most recent appearance on Tour resulted in a T22 finish at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans last month. The Byron Nelson will serve as the three-time major champion’s final tuneup before he heads to Bethpage Black next week to try and defend his PGA Championship title.

The defending champion Aaron Wise enters with 20/1 odds to win this week at Trinity Forest. The defending PGA Tour Rookie of the Year has not won since his 23-under performance at the AT&T Byron Nelson last spring. Wise finished tied for 18th at this past week’s Wells Fargo Championship.

Dallas-native Jordan Spieth, who is still looking for his first victory since the 2017 Open Championship, has 18/1 odds to win this week at Trinity Forest. Spieth finished T54 at the RBC Heritage last month.

The lowest odds to win this week at the AT&T Byron Nelson? Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo at 10,000/1 odds. The CBS Sports NFL analyst and commentator, who currently holds amateur status, received a sponsor’s exemption this past February to compete at Trinity Forest.

It will be Romo’s first time playing at the AT&T Byron Nelson and third appearance on the PGA Tour. He’s competed the last two years in the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship.

You can see a full list of betting odds for the AT&T Byron Nelson below, via golfodds.com.

AT&T Byron Nelson Betting Odds
Brooks Koepka-13/2
Hideki Matsuyama-16/1
Jordan Spieth-18/1
Aaron Wise-20/1
Henrik Stenson-20/1
Marc Leishman-25/1
Patrick Reed-30/1
Keith Mitchell-30/1
Branden Grace-30/1
Sungjae Im-40/1
Ryan Moore-40/1
Kevin Na-40/1
Scott Piercy-40/1
Charles Howell III-40/1
Rory Sabbatini-40/1
Rafael Cabrera Bello-40/1
Alex Noren-50/1
Pat Perez-50/1
Ryan Palmer-50/1
Scottie Scheffler-50/1
Abraham Ancer-60/1
Thomas Pieters-60/1
Thorbjorn Olesen-60/1
Lucas Bjerregaard-60/1
Seamus Power-60/1
Russell Knox-60/1
Daniel Berger-60/1
Trey Mullinax-60/1
C.T. Pan-60/1
Jimmy Walker-60/1
Justin Harding-80/1
Kyoung-Hoon Lee-80/1
J.T. Poston-80/1
Bud Cauley-80/1
J.J. Spaun-80/1
Matt Jones-80/1
Kevin Tway-80/1
Brian Stuard-80/1
Dylan Frittelli-100/1
Michael Thompson-100/1
Kiradech Aphibarnrat-100/1
Russell Henley-100/1
Austin Cook-100/1
Nick Taylor-100/1
Beau Hossler-100/1
Sam Burns-100/1
Adam Schenk-100/1
Brian Harman-100/1
Nick Watney-100/1
Ollie Schniederjans-100/1
Brian Gay-100/1
Aaron Baddeley-100/1
Scott Stallings-100/1
Denny McCarthy-125/1
Martin Laird-125/1
Luke Donald-125/1
Bill Haas-125/1
Sung Kang-125/1
Wyndham Clark-125/1
Vaughn Taylor-125/1
Troy Merritt-125/1
Shawn Stefani-125/1
Kramer Hickok-150/1
Peter Uihlein-150/1
Mackenzie Hughes-150/1
Chris Stroud-150/1
Roberto Castro-150/1
Matt Every-200/1
Harris English-200/1
Kelly Kraft-200/1
Curtis Luck-200/1
Anirban Lahiri-250/1
Cameron Davis-250/1
Ernie Els-250/1
Padraig Harrington-250/1
Colt Knost-250/1
Chad Campbell-300/1
Michael Kim-500/1
Tony Romo-10,000/1

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