TEPaul,
What's wrong with you man ?
That was MacWood's desperate attempt to speculate on alternatives that would indicate that the land was flat.
He was so UNFAMILIAR with the site that he suggested that Ross built those massively huge ridges running through the property.
Brad Klein is his book, "Discovering Donald Ross" indicates that the massive ridges predated Ross and that another architect wanted to excavate them at great expense.
All one has to do is look at the topo to see how the elevations extend beyond the property lines at Seminole to know that the predated Ross's arrival on the site.
Tom MacWood didn't perform his self proclaimed due diligence on Seminole, leaving me to supply him with the research data, the terra server topo, so, in an effort to defend his absurd position, the infallibility of Ross's ALLEGED statement that Seminole was FLAT, he created the "construction theory" that Ross might have built those massively huge ridges, the ones that extend far beyond Seminoles property lines.
And, Tom MacWood has never seen Seminole to see how absurd his position is. He's up in his Ivory Tower in Ohio telling you, who's seen the property 1,000 times, that the golf course is FLAT, then 75 % flat, both of which are totally inaccurate.
Rather than admit he made a mistake, and move on, he continues to support and defend a statement which may be fictional, inaccurate or totally out of context.
With his intellectually dishonest logic he has to do this.
For to admit that Ross's statement is false or fabricated, casts doubt upon Ross's statement regarding Aronomink, because, Ross's alleged statement regarding Aronomink is what MacWood speculates, as proof positive, that Ross and Ross alone changed the configuration of the bunkering at Aronomink.
If he admits that the alleged quote from Ross regarding Seminole is false or fabricated, then he has to admit the same possibility with respect to Ross's alleged quote at Aronomink, and that undermines his speculative theory that he holds out as fact.
There's another issue involved.
Credibility.
Tom MacWood only accepts quotes as authentic if he presents them. If others present them he questions their authenticity, and that's intellectually dishonest.
When Brad Klein, in his book, "Remembering Donald Ross" references 40 foot elevation differentials, Tom MacWood refutes his claim and states that they are only 25 feet high, based on his interpretation of the terra server topos that my superior research skills produced for him.
When I offer to make a wager on his 25 foot claim he remains silent.
Ross knew the site wasn't flat.
His detailed hole by hole designs show the elevation changes and his notes reference slopes.
Hence the alleged quote by Ross must be called into question with respect to it's accuracy and authenticy.
Tom MacWood can't see the logic in that because of the
"false in one, false in many" theory, and the damage it might do to his arguments relative to Aronomink, where he still doesn't know how the bunker configuration went from Point A to Point B.