Rich
I'm affraid you are wrong (once again), the proposed Modern course did not intrude on the Old Course. I'm not sure about the space today (or if the Jubilee has been altered over the years), but there was room for a good number of holes at the time. I've seen the plan and based on the comments of Darwin (and others) and the strength of Hutchison & Campbell as designers, IMHO the Modern course would have been top notch.
Darwin wrote:
"...I doubt if many of us realise how much there is of the entirely virgin country, which plays so great a part in the 'Modern' scheme. I, for instance, have often looked at it, when I have wander out alone with a club to practice; I have seen its natural splendour, but I have thought of it as the material fo a wonderful course to made long after I am dead and buried. But here comes Sir Guy Campbell, ready here and now to make no less than eight holes entirely on this virgin ground, and two more partly upon it and partly on the existing Jubilee. This is, to many of us, I am sure, a revelation, That is is wonderful ground is obvious; it uses the find range of sandhills; it has a constant view of the sea. One of the two architects described it to me as 'fool-proof', and there he was too modest, but he could not praise it more highly. 'It is difficult' says the other, Sir Guy Campbell, 'to overpraise the ground over which the Modern course will run; it so packed with ideal golfing features that every hole will have its peculiar characteristics in ever-changing variety....
....Just visualise its position. Twelve of the eighteen holes will lie between the sand-hills, high and low, and the sea; another four on the wildest part of the New course, and the remaining two on the best part of the Jubilee course, looking across the Old course to the Strathtyrum Woods. And twelve of the eighteen greens will be in full view of the sea. What other links can boast as much?'"
Darwin felt the Old Course was a "sacred and immutable" monument...not to be touched. His concerns were correct...due to the pressures of equipment advancements the course was been stretched and narrowed.