[font=]We saw this course soon after it opened. [/font]We flew in on a pal’s prop plane. Somebody was doing touch and goes at the airport, which sits just above the course, so we had to circle around for twenty minutes directly above WC and our tour was fairly low altitude. None of us knew much about golf architecture, hadn’t seen really good courses, were susceptible to eye candy, and had never seen golf in red rock country. We called from the tarmac to secure a tee time. Sticker shock. Our pilot calculated that if we pooled our quoted green fees, we could easily fly to Cabo and back. We passed and the more I learned about good golf, the less I wanted to play it. I will say this: If you have never seen golf in the red rocks of the US southwest, it makes a very visual first impression you are unlikely to forget. That, BTW, is worth some Doak points.