Pat- Thanks for the terrific update on WBYC. For fellow GCA readers, I'm the club historian and have had the pleasure of working with Pat on what we call the Architecture Control Committee- the Greens Committee at many other places- mandated by our board to oversea any changes to the golf course, which may only be carried out with approval of a consulting architect and board approval. That consulting architect has been Jim Urbina for a couple of decades. We were slow starters for this project, beginning in 1995 when Jim and Tom Doak redid our 8th green. That wasn't actual restoration, and the reasons why are another long story. Suffice it to say a group of us determined that we should try to restore the golf course, which we all loved even in its days after years of tree planting and changes here and there at the whim of various golf chairs. I think a first step was recognizing that our actual architect was William Watson, not Donald Ross (as the club had claimed for decades). The actual impact Ross had on the course itself is unknown, and has been discussed in these pages previously. But we had no doubt that Tom Vardon, our pro from 1916-1937, likely had a major impact in bunkering and of course maintenance during his tenure as the course matured. Vardon designed many courses in North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin while at WBYC. Jim and our team decided we needed some kind of link to that period, which preceded the time when golf chairs could essentially run wild as they saw fit. Abe Appert, our recent golf chair for the last 4 years and ACC chair, was a key in locating the aerials from decades past that Jim used. We decided on an aerial from 1937 as the key document, as Watson had retired at 70 in 1930, Ross had moved on (and never claimed WBYC as his work), and Vardon had retired and died in 1938. The final push to get this project done was the inescapable need for a complete new irrigation system. The timing was perfect- our super of 50 years, John Steiner, had decided to retire a couple of years ago, and Jared Kalina was hired and anxious to take this project on. As Pat shows, the changes really allow the design and landforms to shine. Can't wait for next season when it is all open for play.