TD,
George gave me a look of the manuscript for Vol. 1 at Kiawah Island before it went through the final stages of editing and the pics, drawings, illustrations, etc. were organized. It was months, maybe six or so, before the book was published. In one of our last communications, George stated that his work on Vol 2 was mostly done and waiting organizing, editing, illustrations etc. I did see an email that it really had a ways to go. I am very interested in this volume as I have enjoyed Raynor's (and Banks?) work a lot, but can't get around that he didn't play golf and mostly replicated templates of holes where they fit well on the land. To do this as well as he did, I think it would take artistic talent/creativity, something that one doesn't usually associate with engineers.
I sent George a scorecard for CC of Charleston back in 2010 and he said that Silva had worked on the course and that though he hadn't played it, he'd visited it a few times and:
"however I did make an interesting find the last time I was there ......
"right down the street fm CCC - a muni built by Raynor - includes a road hole with a road behind .... some deserted bunkering between the holes etc"
Do you know what course he was talking about?