Steve, et. al.,
What Craig fails to realize is that regulations such as those proposed or enacted, will forever affect GCA in that water features will be difficult to incorporate into the design of a hole, to the degree that they affect play along the lines of the 11th at Merion, 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th at ANGC, 2nd, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th at Seminole, 6th and 15th at WFW, 3rd, 12th, 13th and 14th at Plainfield, and many, many other wonderful holes at great courses.
To posture, as he does, that these regulations are prudent, is likewise, absurd.
Craig has a history of taking the extremist, rather than the practical view on these issues.