Sounds like a good place for Dallas-Houston get together. I hope this is done before my course closes for 13 months in fall of 2025. I assume an opening date is mentioned somewhere. Scottie Scheffler will be doing a course with Chet Williams this side of Tyler which I hope is public knowledge or I have screwed up.
There is some great land outside Tyler. I was very surprised by what I saw. Not sand, but sandy loam and really good topo. I've got wind of a few projects in planning there.
Pretty wild to hear Tyler discussed here. As a kid, my parents sent me to camp out by Lake Palestine, and the region is a strangely beautiful one in Texas. Extremely different from the Hill Country or the coast. Dark green pines, a strange red dirt make for a really nice color palette. I think the red dirt is clay, so probably not what folks are working with out there, but it's really nostalgic for me.
Edit: found a soil map (
PDF). Yes, it seems that the Tyler area I'm talking about is in the Woodtell-Crockett "Texas Claypan Area" (43), but Wild Spring Dunes is in the Cuthbert-Bowie-Kirvin "Western Coastal Plain and Flatwoods" (47).