When asked about the changes that he made to Muirfield Village, Nicklaus went hole-by-hole and responded, “The key elements of what we did is...moving first green back about 30 yards... Two, didn’t do much. Three, we had a bunker that flooded on the right side of the green, so decided to get rid of that...The 4th green...went from the smallest green on the golf course to the largest green on the golf course. The 5th hole, totally new concept... Six, we didn’t do much except to soften the green...Seven, we got about eight yards... Eight is basically the same. Nine, I added a pin placement on the right...10’s a totally new green...11, moved the green about five yards left...12, we didn’t change. 13, we didn’t change...Did not change 14 at all...15, pretty big change there...tried to bring the fairway back, knock it down, took it down about 20 feet...Up around the green I felt like we had water coming by the green, but it wasn’t really utilized, so we had a mound to the right of the bunkers right of the green, we took the mound out and so the bunkers are right, if you miss the bunkers right, you’re going to go to water...16, we put it back exactly as it was...17, we just narrowed the fairway a little bit...18, we only had one cup in the back of the green. So now I think we probably -- we can get three back there...Outside of that I didn’t do anything, guys.”
