Joe:
I don't generally spend much time pining for those of my courses which have been lost, but I had a look through your pictures because we never had very good ones of Beechtree ... I sent Larry Lambrecht there once, but he didn't get good weather for his photos.
I enjoyed seeing the course again, and it brought me back to remembering many of the details. My favorite holes were the 3rd and 5th on the front nine, and then a lot of the back nine ... the Eden-like 13th with a big swale in the left side of the green [it didn't feed behind the right hand bunker, you had to fly it there] ... the 14th with the big drop on the left ... the 15th was a great long 4 with a tough small green ... and the 17th was a short 4 with a cool big green and some tough hole locations.
Most of all, I remember that during a difficult first summer of construction, when it rained constantly, we thought we were never going to get it finished ... especially the 11th hole which played through a low area. It wasn't a wetland, but it was very flat and all clay, and it felt like we were never going to be able to get through there. When we finally got the hole in there, I was thrilled with the result.