Great stuff - thanks, Tommy.
Who are the individuals in the first pic? Looks like the inimitable Dr. Childs walking with bag on left shoulder in the first one, but hard to tell.... just curious.
And that pic of the 18th, while very cool, just doesn't give the full majesty and glory to that freakin' huge hill. Not your fault, Tommy - no one could capture that. That hill is BIG. Scene of one of the great golf regrets of my life also... after taking 15 holes to warm up and costing my poor beleagured partner Paul Turner mucho dolares in the process, I started to play halfway decently from 16 on and in fact on 18 got a drive right to the base of that mountain from the back tees... GC was all excited to see what might happen if one got their 2nd shot over the mountain... which was possible... except choking Huckaby chunked it into the hill and all was lost.
Damn I love that hole. Yeah, it would be really cool if the old greenside bunkering was restored, but I sure can look beyond that, because one ought not to get in those bunkers anyway - the green was and is huge - and the shots leading up to that are so damn fun.
TH