That tree on the 16th at the TPC (and all the rest of them) would not be there if Pete Dye had not figured out how to lower the water table of the entire site by enough to preserve the trees between the holes. Otherwise, the whole place would look like Doral.
Of course, most other architects wouldn't know the foggiest thing about how to do that, either.
Tom,
Under current environmental restrictions, could the water table been tampered with and the TPC built?
I'm sure that you meant to put several emoticons after your last sentence, otherwise that's a rather mean and unnecessart thing to say about your colleagues, don't you think? I would bet the opposite, that they would, in part because great folks like Pete Dye have demonstrated how to do it. And I wonder how PD came to his knowledge/ability himself.
As to the re:, the tree is perfect there, particularly for the STRATEGY types, and Choi is a shot-making genius. But truth be told, all those guys are; they just play the percentages by going with their strengths.