Thanks for the link, Steve. I spent a few hours on site with Chris at Azario back in March and liked how things were shaping up. Taylor Morrison, the developer, thankfully gave him enough room so that while, yes, there will eventually be houses in view from much of the course, there is plenty of room to play golf out there. The site was pancake-flat to start, so Chris had to shape it all to make the course interesting. Lots of longer, flowing contours out there, and interesting greens.
After a long period of squeezing the absolute largest number of lots out of a site and leaving many golf courses disjointed, crowded and ultimately not much fun to play, real estate developers seem to be finally realizing that a quality golf course will ultimately attract residents, not just any old golf course. I found the same to be the case a few miles away, at Lakewood National (Lennar), where Brandon Johnson of Arnold Palmer Design designed two terrific courses, the second of which opened just around the first of this year.