The EDS Byron Nelson Championship is a golf tournament on the PGA Tour founded in 1944, and is held in late April, early May at the Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas in Irving, Texas. The tournament is one of two PGA tournaments held in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the only metropolitan area to host two PGA tournaments and before the FedEx Cup schedule reforms, it was held the week prior to the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. It was the only PGA Tour stop named after a professional golfer and it remains one of only two such events, along with the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
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During the tournament Nelson commonly made an appearance. For the tournament's first several decades, it was played at a variety of courses in Dallas. The tournament's first winner in 1944, which was played at Lakewood Country Club, was Byron Nelson. At Dallas Country Club was played the following year, and then in 1946 moved to Brook Hollow Golf Club. Before it began a decade-long relationship with Oak Cliff Country Club from 1958-67, the event moved to Glen Lake Country Club in 1957, and in 1968 was renamed the Byron Nelson Golf Classic. Also the same year the event moved to Preston Trail Golf Club, where it was played from 1968, and since 1994 the tournament has been played at two courses, the Tournament Players Course and the Cottonwood Valley Course, both located at the Four Seasons.