I did also send an e-mail to the USGA per the status of their golf museum and received the following response:
According to the current project schedule, the new Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History is scheduled to open in the early summer of 2008. Unanticipated and unprecedented conditions in the local construction market had forced the project team to stop its work for a short period of time in the late spring in order to redesign parts of the project. We are now back at work in full force, pushing towards the completion of construction documents in early October. The brief delay has pushed us back a few months in time (we had originally projected an opening in the late spring of 2008), and we’re hoping that further delays will not come into play. Should all continue to move in a positive direction, actual construction on site will begin in late 2006 (December?) or early 2007 (January?), with a construction period of just over 12 months, followed by several months to install exhibits and commission all the building systems. As the project had largely been proceeding along the schedule that we had originally outlined last November at the time of the groundbreaking (the team did not feel that the two-month delay was a substantial departure from the schedule originally projected), we have been continuing with our plan to issue an official update at the time that on-site construction actually commences.
Hope this helps clarify the situation. Please let me know if there is any additional information that I can offer.
Best wishes,
Rand Jerris, Ph.D.
Director, Museum and Archives
United States Golf Association
Since, I was so critical of the USGA in my original post, I felt I should also acknowledge the quick and detailed response from Mr. Jerris.