I think Metairie is the answer after reading this from cybergolf.com. Doug was first:
Metairie Club Being Restored as ‘Tour 18 of 1922’
By: Mark Leslie
Dealing with the notorious drainage of Louisiana's delta as well as lost character of their Seth Raynor-designed golf course, members of Metairie Country Club are witnessing the restoration of their club's grand heritage. "We looked at what we were and what we needed to be for the 21st century," said golf director Greg Core. "We're landlocked, so we can't stretch the course to 7,000 yards. And when we celebrated our 75th anniversary in 1997, we were reconnected to the fact that the roots of this golf course were with Raynor and the Classical Era."
The members' awakening led them to engage Ron Forse, a leading historical restoration architect, to "bring Metairie back to its luster of the 1920s," Core said. Under Forse's guidance, Metairie CC will become what course superintendent Gary McCulla Jr. calls "The Tour 18 of 1922" – a reference to the Texas course which has replicated 18 famous golf holes. Construction began in January 2003 and the course is expected to reopen on September 1.
Raynor, who had a dazzling career from 1908 to 1926 as an understudy and then a partner of the famed C.B. Macdonald, was known for his recreation of famous golf holes from around the world. According to Forse, Metairie's layout includes at least two holes each from St. Andrews Old Course in Scotland, The National Golf Links and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island, and Piping Rock Club in New York, as well as four from Nassau Country Club in New York.
"We have worked on, or studied, every one of these courses," Forse said. "A 1951 aerial photo of the whole course, plus old newspaper articles from the 1920s, tell us how many holes from what golf courses Raynor took, but they don't tell us which holes they are here at Metairie. Nevertheless, while the routing is much the same as it was in 1922, the features are totally different. Old plateau greens sites have been moved, bunkers have been removed and trees have grown up."
Raynor created clay models of all the green sites, and a local man, Joe Bartholomew, oversaw construction of the project. Though "no semblance of Raynor remains," Forse said, "we will restore his strategic principles and features to this land."
"Some of that restoration," Core added, "is being done with modern equipment in mind. Bunkers 140 yards out in the fairways do not affect golfers today. Prior to this restoration, you could hit your biggest, baddest Big Bertha off every tee and not worry about where you'd land. Ron's work – adding 30 bunkers and rebuilding the greens – will cause people to think about hitting a 2- or 3-iron off some of the tees."
Meanwhile, the course’s poor drainage is being addressed as well. "Because the back nine is 2 feet above sea level and parts of the front nine are 2 feet below, drainage is crucial. Yet it was nonfunctional in a lot of areas," said McCulla, a Metairie native who returned home after several years at Barton Creek Resort in Austin, Texas. "An average 68 inches of rain a year and heavy, heavy clays exacerbate the problem. When it rains for a period of time, you can forget about playing golf for a week."
To rectify the situation, golf course contractor Wadsworth Golf Construction is "capping" much of the property with a layer of sand and installing a massive drainage system.
The greens, built on what Core called "pushed-up muck," are being rebuilt to USGA specifications, minus peat. Peat is being replaced by a ceramic product, Perm-O-Pour, which retains water until the turfgrass roots need to absorb it. McCulla is overseeing sprigging of Tifdwarf Bermudagrass greens, Tifsport fairways and tees, and 419 Bermudagrass roughs. Grassing will be done in six-hole increments, he said, with the first six beginning in mid-April, the next in late-April or early May, and the third six before the end of May.
What has been the response to the project by Metairie's members, who include Freddie Haas, the man who defeated Byron Nelson to break Nelson's PGA Tour winning streak at 12 in a row? "The course had never ever been closed," said general manager Don Beaver Jr. "But we overcame objections by buying tee times at five area courses. That has worked out much better than what we thought.
"Meanwhile, we may be the only club in history that has actually grown a membership while we were closed,” added Beaver. “We marketed it, and made it well known what we were doing, and that the initiation fees will go up. And we have had marvelous results."
"Plus," concluded Forse, "that entire membership will be able to play whenever they want now, and when they step up on that first tee they will be playing a resurrected Raynor, gently tweaked for today's game."