OK, let's try this thread again without the argument.
You bet we thought about the wind at Pacific Dunes. A lot. It was difficult because there are really two winds to think about there, and while most of the summer play occurs in a north wind, you can't discount the other entirely.
Luckily there is almost exactly the same wind situation at Crystal Downs, so I thought about its effects there a lot. I'm honestly not sure whether MacKenzie and Maxwell understood the wind at the Downs when they designed it, but their design works well in the varying winds.
Because of the wind erosion factor with our big flashy bunkers, one thing we tried to avoid was big bunkers on the west or north sides of greens -- where sand would blow out of the bunkers and onto the green. We made one exception, at the fourteenth, and it's one of the toughest places for Ken to keep stable.
I mention this because I was explaining the idea at Shinnecock a couple of years ago, and I said Flynn probably did the same thing there, and we looked at the plan and sure enough ...
The Plantation Course at Kapalua is all about the wind (and the tilt). Texas Tech will be a master's course on the wind, if nothing else.