Buck:
Why the hell would I not listen?
The whole point of the job is to build a course the players love to compete on, while still being playable and maintainable for the 60,000 golfers who play at Memorial the other 51 weeks of the year.
I can represent the 60,000 players pretty well, but I need to sort out how to make it interesting for today's best players. It just so happens that Jim Crane, the principal owner of the Astros, also owns The Floridian where Brooks K and Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler all play, so I suggested we sit down with them and get their input. When Brooks went to #1 in the world, he became our official consultant, but hopefully some of the others will chime in ... because our definition of success will be building a course they all want to come play every year.
I suppose I could just tell them they're all wrong, as many architects do, but I thought it would be more fun to try a different approach.