Geez, no wonder TD isn't able to post much these days. He's an Uber busy boy. I don't know how many current and future projects he has, but it looks as though he'll be spending a lot of time in Wisconsin the next few years. Fortunately, it's a puddle jumper or ferry ride away from Traverse City.
Mike:
You don't know the half of it. We have signed up for a bunch of new projects, and now I've got to figure out how to deliver them all. Spending zero time on Golf Club Atlas is part of the plan.
My clients in Wisconsin are so concerned with owning the narrative of what we are doing, that I'm honestly afraid to say much about it. They are concerned that talking about a shorter course like Dan Moore just did could be construed by some customers as a sign of weakness, so they are trying to downplay par, or may even try to go with no par, so that some golfers can pretend par is more like 70 or 72.
But, in the meantime, we will just go about our business building what we have always talked about. It's a really good piece of ground, and I"m confident that people will like the finished product, because I have seen how the same model works in the UK. Nobody who's just played Rye or Swinley Forest or West Sussex goes into the grill and gets all analytical about par -- or if they do, I feel sorry for them.
I will be up in Wisconsin working the last week of April, and then again throughout the summer, likely more of the days in May and July than in June or August. If any of you are around, come out and see what we're up to. You might even find me running a bulldozer -- I am tuning up again to build a bunch of the greens on a special project in 2023.