Pete:
Always happy to talk about Arches. Have to make another trip out there again -- my wife and son have never been, so it's on the (long) list for a return. Look forward to meeting you.
By the way, as a general comment to all who are reading this thread and are coming to KP -- Rustic Canyon has been in really sensational condition the last two times I've been there. I was talking to the head pro last weekend and he mentioned that they've actually been messing around with the grass to try to firm things up. Conditions are decidedly firmer and faster than I've seen them for some time. In fact, the last two times I've been out there, the fairways have been VERY firm. My eyebrows were definitely raised in a good way.
If any of you have followed the conditioning saga at Rustic, since about two years or so after the course opened, things tended to go more toward the overwatered, not-enough-roll end of the spectrum. But the pendulum seems to be swinging back in the right direction. I'm not hooked in well-enough over there these days, so I don't know if this is going to be the new standard, but I have my fingers crossed.
Anyway, just an FYI for the GCA crowd.