Either way it's still impressive that a new 36 hole facility has 2 top 100 candidates on opening day, and in Florida no less. Not even Bandon could say that.
Jud: Yes. However, the client won't be happy if that's where the two courses wind up; their goals are loftier.
I have tried to tell them they shouldn't make comparisons right away with Bandon, or ask for them. Bandon Dunes didn't compare themselves to Pebble Beach when it opened ... they let other people make the comparisons. [Some people still object vehemently to that; Mr. Keiser always just says that even being compared to Pebble Beach is amazing.] But I guess it's harder to avoid talking about it since Bill and Ben and I have worked in both places.
In the end, there's no ocean at Streamsong, and I think that's the #1 difference between the two places. In fact, I am going to use these courses as a proxy to see how much the ocean is worth in the rankings, compared to my other famous projects which are on the ocean.