This is great news on several levels. First, for decades a mischievious series of Boards at the club has wrought all sorts of change on the #3 course, all in an effort to keep the course tour worthy. It's been a messy and largely unsatisfying exercise and almost exclusively for the supposed "benefit" of getting pros to play the course every five or six years, while the members and their guests get their heads caved in everytime they play the darned thing. That's the type of re-do work Doak won't do. Doesn't have any interest in doing it. The Number 1 course, on the other hand, is always played by the members, so the work will redound to their benefit. There's no question that the bones are there, but the course needs substantial reworking and I personally am very excited that Tom agreed to throw his hat in the ring. I'm guessing that the experience will be similar to that at Olympia Fields, where the guests used to basically insist on playing the North, the Open course and the South was the forgotten stepchild. After Smyers thoughtful and playful renovation, the South is getting almost as much guest play as the North, because if you play it from the proper tees, it's a heck of a lot more fun than the more difficult North.