I've been stewing over this since yesterday afternoon, trying to decide if it was worth it to post my thoughts. Obviously, I'm disappointed in the direction Henrico County has decided to go. I have no problem with the concepts of fewer holes, short courses, learning centers, etc. and/or the operator and architects chosen, this just wasn't the place for it. Belmont was never going to return to the level it was at when it hosted the PGA Championship in 1949, but it WAS a golf course worth restoring and preserving for future generations of Virginians as the only course in the Commonwealth to have hosted a major. Given the restoration trend on Golden Age courses, which has (slowly) been trickling into the municipal arena (heck, even the NPS is getting into the mix now), I was hopeful that would be the direction taken, but Henrico County could just never seem to get on board with the idea that Belmont was a special place already, just in need of a tune-up.