"The USGA had initially planned on creating a web-cam to document the construction process and stream the video live on the internet. That idea, however, has been abandoned."
Can you blame them? I mean they have a serious image to think about and they may not want to video stream over the world wide Internet a video of one of the world's really talented and super up-and-coming architects out there behind Golf House dozer-shaping a really cool super-contoured 16,000+sf putting green singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" at the top of his lungs. I mean, seriously, that might not fit into the "traditional" image the USGA might want to convey to the world.
(if this one needs a smiley face, I'm gonna be pissed)