Future ideas? Does that mean you are amenable to changes to suit tour pros? What are the implications for some of your designs?
It doesn't mean anything, necessarily. But the Tours are sure to have opinions about every hole, so it's important for me to talk through the holes with them, whether I want to change anything or not.
Plus, they are assessing whether to continue playing the event there over the longer term, and they want to know what a long-term plan for that might be. You could say that it's all a negotiation, which is not my usual approach to design.
One thing that was discussed this year was a possible renumbering of the holes [yet again]. The sequence the pros play is very convoluted, creating some really awkward green-to-tee walks as a result of the Tour
(a) wanting a two-tee start,
(b) not wanting to use the actual 10th hole as the other starting point because it's remote and it's a hard shot, and
(c) also [surprisingly] wanting the holes on the point to come later in the round so they'll be on TV more.
The hard thing about The Renaissance Club is that the schedule is the opposite of Augusta's . . . they play the event right in the middle of a short golf season, so there's no way to make any significant changes and get them back into proper condition in time for the same event the next year. Links turf doesn't allow for that. I guess maybe that's a good thing because it makes them more circumspect on wanting to change anything; the ideal of perfect conditions seems to trump design considerations.