Patrick - Are you calling me out on a 2009 quote?!
How many similarities do you think there are? The 3 properties are so incredibly different, WF is flat and was blasted/pushed up all over the place, the appropriately named Quaker RIDGE has nice movement throughout the property, and then there is Fenway which is built into the side of a hill.
Why should we try to force some similarities between the 3 rather than celebrate their differences, that is what makes them probably the best 4-some of course outside of the Hamptons and Bandon.
... I'm not sure I would use the words "VASTLY IMPROVED"... It is certainly improved, but by no means would it say go from an 8 to a 9 on Tom's scale, which I think "VASTLY" hints at. Gil has done a very good job, but on a golf course already so good, doesn't the law of diminishing returns come into play unless you go all Pinehurst #2 on it?!... I just think its starting to get a lot more attention than it used to with the way the membership is changing and the work that Gil has done.