Tom, I get the sense from this thread that your relationship to the client is different from your previous projects.
Do you feel PCC wanted Renaissance Golf Design or "Doak Pinehurst?"
The club's website boasts an opening concurrent with the '24 Open. Is that realistic?
I'm always trying to understand what the client wants; that's harder when the client is an entity instead of an individual. [I sent them some questions a week ago and they are still working on them!] They also have seen fewer of my courses than my typical client has, so it's not as easy to ask what they like about my work. Everybody likes Pacific Dunes, but that isn't always relevant!
The second question, I don't get what you're driving at.
As to the third, yes, it's realistic. The plan is to have everything shaped and grassed by the end of this summer, and they are thinking about sodding fairways, which would speed up the grow-in process considerably. Of course, everything has to go right for all of that to happen, but I don't think it's unrealistic, and we are highly motivated because we have other places to be come fall.