Why do I feel like a piece of cheese in a room full of cats?Whistling StraitsFirst a great routing- 8 holes directly on the lake edge-a great balance of holes on the waters edge, the cross-overs provide a balance of golf holes on the lakes edge. Example, holes #3 and #4 ply to the left along the lakes edge, then after hole #6 one crosses-over behind hole #2. This provides hole #7 and #8on the waters edge playing to the right-so there is a balance of holes along the lake edge that play to the left and to the right. This occurs on both the front and back nines.-the holes that are not directly on the lake lay out and were grading so that windows of the lake could be achieved, mostly at green sites. Examples, #14 and #15 green, #2 greenSecond, He got the scale right, not an easy thing to do. This thing is big. 30 foot cuts and 30 fills to provide the 60 foot elevation change necessary in providing the sense of sand dunes. Hole #10 alone must be on 15-20 acres.Third, the shaping. Not an easy thing to do at this scale, and to make it look natural. Mr. Dye is the best and taking artificial mounds and making them look natural-I don’t know of anybody else that has his talent for this. Fourth, Grassing. We have got to give Tom Doak credit for doing it first, but the fescue on this golf course is impressive, and this project has the budget to make it work. Also, the greens and surrounds are grassed in bent and shaped, so that in a tournament condition they can be reduced from their larger size used for daily play. Fifth, the site. This wasn’t a “Ray Charles” site along Lake Michigan. It was a dead flat army base with a run-way. I personally don’t know of anyone else who could have achieved this great course but Mr. Dye.