Architecture’s best rule is: Use what’s there. Sometimes that’s a perfect landscape, a Shinnecock Hills with wild grasses, sand ridges, a distant bay. Sometimes it’s Florida citrus land, a pasture and canals.
For all the happy talk from and about Woods by those who wish everything was all right, it’s not unreasonable to surmise that the 14-time Major-championship winner’s life has been troubled for a while.