May 2004 ... Slow Play at Riverfront on a Sunday PM on the 5th hole, when I accidently drove too close to the fairway bunker at the outside edge of that dogleg and then realized how differently the hole played from that spot than from the middle of the fairway.
If not for the slow play, I would not have taken the time to look that hard at the design. Being in a related design field, (architect of buildings) and a life long golfer, I had had a sneaking suspision that better golf courses were better for unknowable (for me) reasons. That day changed me. I looked up who designed the course (did not know at the time).
In the fall of 2005, I entered Golf Magazines Armchair Architect Contest and lucky enough to win and spend 3 days with TD and group at the Bay of Dreams. I discovered this web site at the same time when a number of people were 'commenting' on my design. I have met Scott Weersing through this site and we have become golfing buddies. We will go out to Bandon next February. We played Beechtree about 5 weeks before it closed.