This may even be some hidden reason why our boy William Flynn never realized a long and fruitful life and his hugely potential golf architecture career was cut short in 1945 at the age of 55, not allowing him to go head to head with RTJ in the early "Modern Age of Golf Architecture" and make mince-meat out of him---and thereby change the path of golf architecture for the better forever! Our boy William was trying to FAKE OUT MOTHER NATURE, and we all know that's not a great idea in the long run!!!
Does this explain why Alister MacKenzie died in a pathetic existence begging ANGC for pennies on the dollar? Why Tillinghast was cast into virtual obscurity in some run-down antique shot on the Left Coast---why Crump committed suicide at the peak of his accomplishment in 1918 at 46---why Hugh Wilson suddenly felt like a "boiled owl" at 45 and expired practically the next day, why Harry Colt ended up entering contests for growing peas, and why the great conceptual genius of them all, George Thomas, chucked architecture completely and went back to growing roses?
I think we're damn straight onto something really significant here. Call up Tom MacWood and see if he agrees!