The best curriculum to study is landscape architecture and it is wise to work for a golf course construction firm in the summers. You must know how to build a course before you become an effective designer. No. 5 at Merlot and No. 11 at Chardonnay. They are on different nines so running parallel to one another doesn't make much difference. I think the most important thing is to have enough students in landscape architecture no matter where you go.
Professionals tend to go back to their alma mater to recruit designers.
There will really won't be many changes it will be a restoration. The green surfaces have been restored through the use of computers and modern technology as well as with old plans we found in the early 1960's. Some holes have been lengthened so they play the same distance they did in Donald Ross's time. The chipping areas have been mowed as they have in the past. The bunkers are being refurbished back to their original sizes.