It's an intersting dynamic between the membership, Hurdzan and Nicklaus in the renovation. As historic background, the course wanted another shot at hosting a US Open in the 1960's, and listened to the USGA whispers that it would need redesign in order to get it. Wilson and Lee were brought in, and their changes were not well received by Nicklaus - and ironically the course never got the hoped for US Open. It's interesting that the new renovations are again made with the hope of a USGA championship. However, if they were going to do a renovation, why use the 1963 version of the course as the gold standard? Wouldn't going back to the Ross version of the course make more sense? It seems from the article that Hurdzan was successful in using Jack as a voice to the membership to push them away from the 1963 version as golf nirvanah, but now it seems there are 3 voices in the course - Ross; Wilson and Lee; and Hurdzan and Nicklaus. Such "composed" designs are rarely home runs.