Pat
Being an architect based in Emmet country, I'm still waiting for Kelly to share with us what he knows about Emmet and Seawane. Pat maybe you have some interesting information you could share with us on Emmet and Seawane. Where would you place Seawane among Emmet's portfolio of notable designs....I suspect it is up there, but I'm not certain...I've run across very little information on the golf course.
I'll hold out judgment until I know a little more about Seawane. As far as Kay is concerned, I don't know much about him either, what I've seen of his restoration efforts is limited to Oyster Harbors and I was extremely disapointing. What were your impressions of his work at Seawane or Oyster Harbors?
I'm not surprised Kelly jumped at the opportunity, being a desciple of Von Hagge I suspect he is a bit sensative to criticisms of compromised great courses. We all know you are extremely sensative to the criticisms against Rees and his sloppy work on famous courses. The positive aspect of both Rees and Fazio's molestation efforts, they choose famous courses with significant amounts of historical documentation: Equinox, Bethpage, Inverness, Oak Hill, Riviera, Merion, East Lake, Maidstone, Sea Island, Hollywood, Quaker Ridge, Lake Merced, Monterey Peninsula, Ridgewood, etc, etc...it reads like a who's who.