Don, Mike, and Di,
Thank you all so much for having us. It was an awesome day with just enough wind to make you think a little bit and much more comfortable weather than we've had the past few days in Dallas.
As for the golf course, it's hard to equate how mystical the feeling is of playing such a great track in someone's backyard. There's so many teeing options that it's easy to have the hole play different ways over the course of the day. In the morning, the opening tee shot was a drivable par 4 for me played over the left bunker with the right hazards in play, risking a pull into the pond by taking that line, but in the afternoon, we moved 25-30 yards back, and the hole suddenly turned into the bottle. Getting past the front left bunker wasn't an option, it served as the holes greatest defense, and I was left with a 65 yard pitch to a green tilted away from me. It's one of many examples of this.
The generous width of holes like the 2nd, 5th, 9th, 13th, and 14th does much of the same, and the split fairway on 18 can be played enough ways to keep one interested at all times (although playing 18 from further back removes much of the desire of playing right if you can hit it longer).
I also loved the use of the creeks throughout the course, even if my balls ended up in a few of them (that 6th hole killed me!) as they rarely were met with another hazard, seemingly making them an even more dominant feature since nothing distracted from their presence.
All of the greens are wonderful, but it's fitting that I think the best complex, the joint green at the 8th and 18th, is right outside the house. I couldn't think of a better green to practice on in the evenings. You can hit just about every short game shot you can imagine in that one spot.
I'll be curious to see what happens with the golf course, but I do know that I dearly hope the course remains, it'd be such a heartbreaking loss for the game of golf to lose such a great track.
I'll post photos soon when I get the chance.