"Let 'em shoot what they shoot"
/Steve Elling follows up on the Bay Hill redo and features glowing quotes from tour official Jon Brendle. There's also this:
Oh, for those who think the Palmer, now a great-grandfather, has perhaps gone soft in his advancing years, fret not. The course changes include the addition of 100 new oak, cypress and magnolia trees, which helped visually frame certain shots here and there. One of Palmer's architects said the King, a blue-collar guy who has always known the value of a buck -- if not how to squeeze one -- worked a deal where Bay Hill bought $150,000 worth of trees for $50,000.
So he hasn't lost his touch. Indeed, the new awakening might prove to be a boon for Bay Hill across the board, because, as many tour players had muttered over the past few years, "hard" is not a synonym for "good."
"What we'd really like is for the course to get back into the top 50 [rankings]," Larsen said. "It's kind of fallen down [the list] over the years."
Would that be top 50 in...Florida? America?
There are some before/after photos in this GolfClubAtlas.com thread.