My first impression of the Trinity Forest links golf course when it hosted the Byron Nelson in 2018: “This course is amazing looking. Reminds me of Shinnecock Hills. Looks nothing like Dallas. This is going to be fabulous.’’

My next impression roughly 10 minutes later: “There’s no shade within a mile of where I’m standing. Fans are going to melt.’’

And they did, those that came. A late May golf date on a treeless course — well, thousands of trees surround the layout but they don’t factor into the tournament or provide any degree of comfort — was always a bad idea. We have learned that it’s over, that the 2020 Nelson will be the final one held on the south Dallas course. Eventually, the tournament will move to PGA Frisco but it may need to make a stopover back at the Four Seasons TPC for 2021, which is sort of like telling your ex-wife: “Hey, things didn’t work out with my new partner, but I need to come home and crash before moving on to my next one, is that OK?’’

Regardless, this somewhat noble experiment need not be viewed as a total failure. As someone who’s old enough to remember walking Preston Trail as a kid to see Arnie and Jack play, even covering a Nelson there when Tom Watson won in 1979, I understand that these events can hop around. No shortage of great golf courses in the Dallas area. The stay in Las Colinas was a lengthy one, probably overdone given that it never will be a great golf course for fans to walk.

Not that thousands of fans at the Nelson were ever interested in walking anywhere but the Pavilion anyway.

The Trinity Forest run will be incredibly short but it can be defined by its three stages:

Come see this new Nelson course.

Come see Tony Romo.

Come see this Nelson course for the final time.

Last year’s Nelson reportedly generated about half the $6 million that the 2017 event held in Las Colinas produced. That was reason enough for the PGA Tour to pull the plug.

But if this tournament is going to draw the date immediately before the PGA Championship, it will never produce the fields that Byron Nelson’s presence drew for the TPC course. Factor that in along with tough access, inadequate parking, an unfamiliar location and a course with no history and the Trinity Forest experiment was doomed from the beginning.

Some pros liked the easy-birdie course — rookie Aaron Wise shattered the Nelson scoring record with a 23-under-par finish in 2018 — but others felt like Matt Kuchar. He missed the cut in what was clearly going to be his only trip to Trinity Forest, saying, “I’m mostly disappointed in myself that I let my dislike of the golf course affect my performance.’’

One more trip around the links course and then the Nelson will find a new home. Maybe a couple more at least in the next two years.