I’m curious what the redesign would look like
well I missed the first in person presentation due to another commitment and then they had to cancel the last one because of everything going on
But supposedly he is focused on trying to bring back the design philosophy that the course originally had but in a modern equipment world.
You have to be an old man like me to remember some of the early designs we lost - but the most obvious is #8 that used to run almost 90 degrees from the current direction with the green down by the creek. All that was lost when the river authority forced the tee to move and so they moved the green also. Plus the creek has become a trash collector more than a moving water way.
#3 would be changed back to more how it was before the three bunkers were placed inside the dog leg and we lost the protective tree through the fairway
#4 would be adjusted to allow a run up shot to occur again.
#5 I thought I heard they were talking about opening the right side up a little so you could see the river
Lots of other things on the back 9.
My guess is it will be 200 small things that all add up to not feeling like major changes aesthetically but make some big differences in how you play shots off the tee.
The biggest area of interest to me is the vast differences in green complexes that currently exist. Beyond the argument over what "grass" to use is also the fact that Colonial has about 13 really flat greens and about 5 with tiering.
The discussions I have been involved with always wondered if some of the greens were designed by Maxwell and others by Bredemus based on the other courses those two designed independently of each other. Or if Mr Leonard has some say given what he did at Shady Oaks on the front nine when he built it in the 50's.