Kalen, well that provides the boundary. I kinda figured that they would reserve the road frontage for development as there is already a couple hectatre site with the vegetation scrapped off. There are a couple breaks in the road fence that gives you a pretty good look and idea of the complextion of the site. Although ithe areas down by the lake are more interesting for golf, I wonder what the local environmental rules are. I would hope anyone submitting on this already has a local environmental engineer/landscpae architet who knows the in's and out's. And what are the International Golf Federation specifications? Any extensive environmental permitting could sink the schedule.
On a side note, seeing that there is 1 from the Isles, 2 from Australia, 1 from South Africa (though Ernie would have been in there too!) Annika representing Europe and L.O. Mexico and 4 from the States, I was pretty close but erred on the extent of how far I figured they would take their Political Correctedness. I would have place good money on a bet for a Canadian and would have loved to see Ian & Mike get a shot. I gotta admit, I was a bit surprise with 4 Americans. Although Jake and Bobby didn't surprise me at all. Nice to see Tom and Gil get a shot (although I would have thought the committee would have not had the ability to differentiate between the 2
). And I really missed the boat on the token Asian (maybe there just isn't anyone who measures up). Another long shot I was mulling over was a JV with Nick Faldo/Curley&Schmit. I also never even considered that Pete Dye would throw his hat in the ring. 1st off, he doesn't do anything outside of the US (save for a Caribbean project) and he is not to suffer working for fools, escpeially at his age.
Another way to look at it is there are 4 Professional Golfer/Designers and 4 Journeymen Architects. So there is some paridy there too.