<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Current champion </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Aaron Wise </Td> </Tr> <P> The AT&T Byron Nelson is a golf tournament in Texas on the PGA Tour . The tournament is held in May, and in 2018 moved to the new Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas . It is one of two PGA Tour stops in the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex--the only metropolitan area to host two events . The tournament is the leading fundraiser for charity on the PGA Tour and has raised more than $143 million . For much of its history, it was the only PGA Tour stop named after a professional golfer; it remains one of only two such events, along with the Arnold Palmer Invitational . As host, Byron Nelson (1912--2006) commonly made appearances during the tournament . It is hosted by the Salesmanship Club of Dallas, a 600 - member civic organization, and has benefited the Club's nonprofit Momentous Institute since its inception . </P> <P> For its first several decades, the tournament was played at a various courses in Dallas . Nelson, a Texas native raised in Fort Worth, was the tournament's first winner in 1944, when it was played at Lakewood Country Club . The following year it was played at Dallas Country Club, and then in 1946 moved to Brook Hollow Golf Club . For the better part of the next decade the event was not contested, until two iterations of it were held in 1956, both at Preston Hollow Country Club . In 1957, the event moved to Glen Lake Country Club before it began a decade - long relationship with Oak Cliff Country Club, from 1958--1967 . </P>

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