Cabot is PE/development in golf clothes make not mistake about their goals and model

Would be interested to get your thoughts on something I have been turning over in my head for a while: Is playing the holes of a course in the correct order essential to experiencing it as intended?Prompted in part by the the Women's PGA, where as we know the final holes of each nine were switched. Does this fundamentally alter the ebb and flow of the course as Hanse intended it? The fact this needed to be done at a course designed for championship golf is, as noted by Meg and others, pretty poor.It also occurred to me when reading Brett Hochstein's piece in the newsletter (which was a delightful change of pace), as to whether for recreational players, playing the holes other than 1 - 18 gives you the appropriate balance of tough and easy holes in the right sequence, or whether it really matters.I guess the practice of pros going off 1 and 10 at the same time is not going to change, but it seems it might present a different test. As a side note, I also think arranging tee times through anything other than a blind draw is an abomination, but that maybe marks me out as a potential cadet for the Fair Police. I seem to remember Andy discussing Shinecock on the US Open pod with Trevor and the extreme difficulty of the start to the back nine there. Whatever about tournament fairness, does this materially impact a player's experience of their round if they get punched in the face in the first half hour rather than the hackneyed 'gentle handshake'?I know some places seem to get away with it (Royal Melbourne composite springs to mind), but would like to hear what you think.

Can't edit! Should say nice semi-private (really public) course

I belong to a 9 hole club in west central Illinois. It's nothing fancy, but it's a pretty good little track for a town of 4,000 and membership in the 150 range. Built in 1957 you can imagine that we are now overgrown with the trees planted over the years, many of which were planted without thinking 30-40 years out. For the sake of our turf and playability how do I convince our membership that significant tree removal is the way to go. Sidenote, we've begun the process naturally with about 50 ash trees succumbing to the Emerald Ash Bore Beetle, 35 of which we removed last winter. I've begun to put together my own 'Master Plan' for the course, but as you can imagine we do most of our work through volunteer efforts. Any suggestions on how to create buy-in would be greatly appreciated.

While I would like more affordable public options (what even is affordable anymore) I am not totally against the premium destination resort. I look at it as a once, maybe twice experience and it's nice to be able to play great courses in cool locations.I do worry however about PE getting involved. As someone who works in an industry with plenty of PE involvement, they have very different goals than Dream Golf or Cabot. Most PE is going to want to pretty it up, jam up the tee sheets with premium tee times, then flip it to someone else to manage long term. Depending on how long they hold a course/resort, I can only see negatives as they begin to cut costs longer term in order to make the return they need.