Matt:
So which one would MPCC-Shore be up for? I'm staring right at our list of Best New nominated courses and it's on there. We also don't have a separate list of nominations for Best Restorations though... and as I look at the list of Best New, I don't see any other obvious restorations....
Not that I doubt you one bit - you remain the world's expert on these matters. But just do clarify where MPCC falls. And if it is as a Restoration, is the editors, the course, or the architect who makes the decision which list to be nominated for?
Note logically, MPCC-Shore simply cannot be called a "restoration" - it is a nearly complete re-do, the routing being completely different after the 4th hole. Calling it "New" makes way more sense to me.
But they don't ask me to make these calls.

TH