Whenever I stand on the first tee at Governors Club, a sense of excitement envelops me over the test to come. I know I can break 80 out there, because I've done it several times. But it will take concentration and care. And I can shoot 95 as well. I've done that, too.
People like to be challenged.
I don't think you want to build a golf course where people can stand there and not have to think and not be challenged and not play a golf shot. I think people enjoy having to learn how to play the game. Governors Club was one of the pioneers in forcing golfers to play from the correct tees and to discourage macho high-handicappers from playing tees they can't hope to comfortably negotiate. In the end, the marketplace is the sole judge and jury on any commercial enterprise. From Winston-Salem go through Germanton on N.C. 8, turn left on N.C. 65.