Matt: Maybe someday I'll feel like giving ratings to the rest of my courses, and publishing it so you and others can buy a copy. For now I'm out of that business. I think most single-digit handicappers would prefer the challenge of the old course, and most others would prefer the variety of the new; I could lean either way depending on how I'm playing.
Sean: Some of the tees have settled a bit; others were just so small that ten years of foot traffic has roughed them up considerably. The contractor built them as small as possible to "save maintenance costs."
Scott: Fazio's original position for the sixth tee was about thirty yards farther back on the side of the hill, and the green would have been up closer to the current 7th tee. Jay Sigel said he thought it would be a 2-iron tee shot and a 3-wood second, and he encouraged us to turn it into a long carry over the creek off the tee. I don't even know if Jay was thinking of providing the alternate fairway to the right, but I built it anyway, and I usually hit a 1-iron over there and a 4-iron to the green myself.
The sixteenth tee position was always as it is today. One little-known fact about the course is that a high-pressure gas line runs across the 2nd, 12th, 13th, 14th and 16th holes -- about 125 yards in front of the tee on sixteen, so it was impossible to consider any earthwork to make those more visible. The distance from the gas line to Route 345 guaranteed that there would be some "up and over" holes.
The ninth, tenth and 18th holes were actually backwards on Fazio's plan ... 18 would have been a par 5 that started from the tenth green, played down toward the tenth tee, and then doglegged hard left to a green by the ninth tee on the water. [His tenth hole would have been back up the current 18th.] When I went to interview for the job, I asked how they would stop players from playing Fazio's 18th hole backwards down his tenth [my 18th] fairway ... apparently no one had ever considered that. I think it's one of the reasons I got the job; the other reason was that I shared with them a copy of The Confidential Guide, and they liked what I had to say.
None of this is meant to pick on Tom Fazio's design for Stonewall ... in truth, if he'd stayed involved and done the job, I'm sure he would have reconsidered some of the same things that I changed.