It'll be more of a links-style track, and not as lengthy as the University Course, Fought said. Unlike the traditional Northwest course, Washington National is built on a 515-acre site that is full of gravel, not trees. You can't build a golf course on gravel, so the surface was plated with six to eight inches of sand, all of it hauled over from Port Orchard. Getting a water plan approved by King County was the biggest obstacle. The course is visually stimulating, like Pine Valley.
Pine Valley is kind of like target golf.
The bunkering schemes are very classic and traditional, sort of like the ones at the Riviera Country Club or the San Francisco Golf Club. The huge greens are raised up a bit like at Winged Foot. Knowing all that, Fought said he didn't copy any holes. By the way, when they did those golf courses, they took design concepts from Scotland because that's where golf was being played. They basically mimicked a lot of those things.