The company was great and the course was a delight. For a site with very little elevation change, there are some terrific green sites, 3 pictured above may be the best.
If Tom D gets a look at this thread . . . 15-17 was a fund stretch but it felt a little tight in the northwest corner and I would be curious to learn what challenges/considerations went into that stretch.
Rory,
The third green is left over from the previous version of the course, we changed nothing much there.
16 and 17 were always tight together. However, the biggest change we made was to dig the wetland between 14 and 15 and design the two holes around it. Previously, there was a medium length par 4 running north between 13 and 16 which (like 13 and 16) was on very low ground. The spring high tides usually put this three holes underwater for a while, plus, they were three medium par 4 holes in a row, all downwind. Digging out the wetland gave us the fill to raise the holes along the shore, and gave us a bunch of credit with the environmental agencies to clear the cat tails along the edge of the marsh, so you could see across to Atlantic City.
It is a bit tight in that space, and we had to shorten the 18th hole a bit so that drives would not endanger the new 14th green ... The previous tee was back by 17 green and the hole was a short par 5. However all the new holes are good ones. Also, adding a hole and changing direction on the new 15th allowed us to combine the former 10th through 12th holes into two longer holes ... the eleventh gained tremendously from that change.