Pete Galea:
It sounds like an interesting idea and I don't know where you are but if possible you should come and see what Coore and Crenshaw are doing at Hidden Creek (Egg Harbor, NJ) in that particular vein.
Mike Rewinski, you and Westhampton really don't count. I don't think any of us can really figure out how Raynor did what he did so well. For a really flat site there are all kinds of golf features popping out of the ground on your course--but they work!
I really wanted to respond to this thread because I was walking around Hidden Creek (under construction) with Kye Goalby last week and there was all this material piled here and there in random mounds and such. Kye got fixated on these things and said they were going to use them for mounding and such (Chocolate drop in nature) and I said, no way, that would be odd on a very low profile "heathland" style course. I even bet him a lunch on it or maybe a week of lunches.
Well, he was right, they're going to use it for just that type look. Then on the next nine Kye sort of changed his mind and said if they were going to use it that much they should think about trying to use it in a minimal fashion maybe on the fairways and such and tie the whole look together.
I think he might be right about that. I think Kye Goalby has fantastic instinct about many things to do with golf concept and things like this! As soon as I say that some architect out there will tell me that I shouldn't say that about Kye Goalby because it's insulting to other architects out there or at least I ought to get around more. Maybe they're right but I still will probably think Kye Goalby has great instinct on things like that!