It's important to distinguish what we are categorizing as a "Winged Foot". Here are a few potential conclusions that mean very different things:
1. An urban or suburban, core golf course on less than 200 acres.
2. A course with tree-lined, parkland fairways.
3. A course with relatively narrow fairways.
4. A course on gentle land with pushed-up, challenging greens.
The first two things are all about site selection, which is mostly the province of our clients.
The last two things are more about what an architect chooses to do.
It's pretty hard to do #4 because in the modern world, nobody wants greens as challenging as Winged Foot. I believe Talking Stick's South course was supposed to be modeled like that, but nobody ever talks about it; the North course, with its wider fairways, gets all of the attention.
We will see what everyone thinks about all the new courses in SE Florida when they open. None of them are really "parkland" with trees like Winged Foot for obvious reasons, and most are fairly spread out. Mine is modeled more after a links than a parkland course, because we had no existing trees at all, but it is a core golf course on +/- 200 acres. So is The Park in West Palm.