2026 Austin Championship: Omni Barton Creek Fazio Canyons Course Breakdown & Golf DFS Picks

The Austin Championship is a brand new, full field event on the PGA Tour, worth 500 FedEx Cup Fall points with a six million dollar purse. It’s a 120 player, 72 hole stroke play event, previously known as the Good Good Championship before Good Good stepped away as a sponsor in late August. The Omni Barton Creek Fazio Canyons course, not to be mistaken for the Fazio Foothills course is designed by none other than Tom Fazio, and plays as a par 72, measuring 7,451 yards. It is this course’s first PGA Tour event, although the Fazio Foothills course has hosted a Champions Tour event in the early 1990s. It sits 974 feet above altitude, which should give a very small carry distance boost, but many of the holes play extremely downhill, weaving through the canyons. There is actually a lot of elevation change on this property, it’s pretty good land for golf.

There was also a big renovation of the golf course in 2022, which closed the course for seven months and cost over five million dollars. The main changes were adding length to the course and modernizing the bunkers for modern carry distances. The irrigation was also re-done, and Omni’s director of agronomy stated that the goal was to account for modern carry distances. There was some occasional tree trimming as well. Bermuda everywhere appears to be the agronomy, and the greens were all rebuilt with MiniVerde pure Bermuda. The golf course generally gets overseeded in the Spring, but at this time of year, it plays as true Bermuda head to toe, very similar to the version of Memorial Park that we used to see when it was a Fall event before it moved to the Spring and got over-seeded.