SPDB,
If you're going to jump at another chance to disagree with me, just to disagree with me, you should pick your battles more carefully.
Tom MacWood specifically referenced the NY Metro area, not clubs that join the MGA, which like the GAP actively recruits clubs, almost regardless of their location.
Green Acres, which I've played 50+ times is nowhere near the NY Metro area, and only a moron would make that claim.
I don't consider NGLA as part of the NY Metro area either, that's your claim.
Tom MacWood,
Neither of us has any experience with the raw site at PV, but I have extensive experience with the current site, and you have absolutely none. I submit that the raw site isn't much different then the current site. The same can be said for the 10 hole short course, the topography is little changed due to those golf courses being laid upon them.
And, the surrounding property remains in its natural state.
I've seen the sites and can make evaluations based on my personal experience. You've never seen the sites and thus can't make any personal evaluations about the site, or any comparison of the site to other sites. You're disqualified from making evaluations or comparisons due to the fact that you've never seen the site, or the surrounding area.
History is often defined by its authors, and not necessarily a reflection of the truth. It's one thing to read about an archeological dig, quite another to experience it.
You again, falsely conclude that I'm lashing out due to your presumption that I have no historical basis/knowledge.
I have that and more, I've been to the site innumerable times, I've studied it and its surroundings. You've never seen it, yet posture yourself as one qualified to make evaluations relative to its merits and in comparison to other sites.
That's rather arrogant.
Since this thread is about the awarding of sites, prime and otherwise, my posts are germane to the thread.
You want them to go away because they challenge your conclusions which have no basis in actual onsite evaluation.
Pine Valley's site isn't Shadow Creek's site.
You maintain that Pine Valley was such a wonderful site.
How is that site demostratively different then sites 1/4, 1/2, 1 and 2 miles away ?
OR, is it deemed a great site because Crump created a masterpiece on it, and the site is given credit rather then Crump's genius ?
Is NGLA a great site, or did CMB make it one ?
What made the sites so good, that you claim they were PLUM jobs ?
Perhaps it wasn't the site at all, but the architects creative talent that produced a great golf course on that site.
Time and time again you lectured me and others that Rees Jones had been given great sites and messed them up.
You made these comments despite the fact that you hadn't seen some of those sites, which goes back to the subject of arrogance. How can you make any evaluation relative to the merits of a site, when you've never seen the raw site, or seen and played the finished golf course on that site
Perhaps you view certain PLUM sites in the context of the finished product and other PLUM sites in the context of who the architect was, or perhaps both.
As to your question regarding Long Island, Emmett's work at GCGC didn't harm him, the fact that he was retained to build course after course nearby would seem to indicate that he was accepted as an architect of merit and that his work at GCGC was applauded.
What BlueBlood courses did Emmet design in Long Island ?
Your desire to champion Emmet's involvement at NGLA has warped your conclusions, as usual.
But, the real question remains, why wasn't Ross involved with any golf course in Long Island.
Perhaps Michael Fay might offer his thoughts.