With it being too cold for golf, I figure this may be as good of a time as any for something I've been pondering for the last couple of months. If you gave me less $50,000 and told me to re do Webb and make it a top notch golf course, here are the things that I would do.

I'm far from a professional architect, and would love to hear your thoughts... good and bad. If you have other ideas, I'd love to hear those too. This is obviously never going to happen, but with the discussion of Webb the other day, it got me thinking about what I would do if I was in charge.

Most of the stuff is fairly simple and would not cost a lot of money, at least I don't think it would cost a lot of money.

Hole 1:

I'd add a center line bunker at 235-240. It would make most golfers ponder whether they want to take driver or lay up in front.

Hole 2:

I'd dig the lake out to make it bigger. Right now, unless the course is baked, it really isn't in play. It should be in play off the tee, considering the right side of the fairway is the better side of the fairway.

Hole 3- leave the same

Hole 4:

I'd take the low lying area behind the green where the grass is already high and wrap it around the left side of the green and then in front of the green. It wouldn't get too close to the green, but enough to where you'd have to lay up in front of it or hit a good long club into the green. You'd obviously have to leave a path from the cart path to the green. This wouldn't cost money, but would likely save a few bucks because it's less area to cut.

Hole 8:

Hole 8 is a terrible design because a lot of people choose to hit down number 2. I've marked with an x where I typically hit the ball. Hitting over the two trees with a sand wedge isn't really an issue. In order to incentivize taking on the trouble of the trap and OB, they need to build some mounding or berm by the trees which blocks the view of the green from 2 fairway. You would use the dirt you pulled from the lake on 2.

Hole 9: I'd add a bunker on the right center of the fairway, but I'd cut the grass on the right at fairway height.

Hole 10- leave alone

Hole 11: I'd add a water feature from the ditch on the left all the way across multiple fairways and let it end in a small lake that would be helpful for drainage (presumably). This would likely be short of most drives, but would be about 150 yards from the green.

Hole 12: Carry forward the same small creek, but remove a ton of trees. Right now, the trees obstruct the fairway and landing area. I'd also add a third tee further back. Everywhere that is a red circle is a tree I'd take out.

Hole 13: This would be a template hole- Tillinghast's Great Hazard. If you hit a good drive and a good second shot, it would be unlikely to ever come into play. If you don't hit either of those good, it would be brutal. It's 50 yards wide and starts 200 yards from the hole and ends 150 yards from the hole.

Rest of the golf course would be left alone, except for a wall of ivy or bricks or something that would obstruct the view of the creek from the golf course.

I had another idea a while back about selling the golf course off on the other side of the creek and college and had a decent 9 holer laid out, but I can't find the post.