Video: Weiskopf Tours Back9 Around TPC Scottsdale

Architect Tom Weiskopf tours Back9 Network's Shane Bacon around his remodeled TPC Scottsdale in this video feature.

The story includes some drone footage of the course as well as Weiskopf taking us through the major changes to green complexes and tees. I have to say that I'm struggling to not judge until seeing it in person or during the (final?) Waste Management-sponsored Phoenix Open in 2015, but I have to say it does not look better. Weiskopf touts the new uber-white sand-flashed bunkers compared to the old desert brown grassed face pits built by he and Jay Morrish (who is not mentioned in the piece, sadly). But the new Augusta-style bunkers look gastly in the desert landscape where the old desert browns didn't jump out so blatantly.

The new par-3 4th looks particularly uninspired, with a Mickey Mouse-shaped fronting bunker that looks beemed in from Disney World. I really hope it looks better on the ground than it does from the air.

Anyway, on that positive note...