Pat,
Bought the yardage book and one for my brother, thanks for the recommendation, great images in that one.
I played the back tees and on about half the holes, they were at the US Open teeing ground on some holes (all par 3's, 1 and 12 for example), one tee box up (16 and 6 for example) on the rest.
Yes, the wind was howling when we started, it actually calmed down a bit later in the round, but my rescue club off of #10 almost went too far, I had the "last available even lie" before the downslope...that hole is just plain scary.
It certainly changed 17, as I had to try and kill a 3 iron into the wind, and just left it right and watched it kick into the bunker.
I was happy to have the full "experience" as far as the wind blows, and yes, my host said that if it was August, some of the chips and putts would have been very different...it was all I could handle I know that.
Mike