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I wouldn't be surprised if Colt worked on the plan back in England. I've always suspected he did, partly becasue he had done so before. In 1913 Colt wrote an article on the process (Course making unseen), the unnamed course in the article he had never even stepped foot on. I think it is pretty clear Crump and Colt were corresponding after Colt went back home."
Tom MacW:
That's certainly possible, maybe even likely. It might better explain that date on this item too. It would certainly be surprising if Crump and Colt never corresponding on PVGC again after Colt left PV and America in June 1913 (particularly if Crump really did pay Colt $10,000
). If they never corresponded much again after Colt left that fact alone would surely say a lot about what Crump may've thought about Colt as well as the ensuing years of the creation of PVGC.
On the other hand, if the hole drawings in this item are in blue lines and those hole drawings (Colt) on this item more closely match the details of the way the course got built or even in some or many ways matched some of the red lines on the topo map in the clubhouse, then that would tell me that more of the hole designs and features of the golf course that were actually built were more Colt's than anyone has realized.
However, if the blue line hole drawings on this item are basically the same as the blue lines on the topo map in the clubhouse or on the hole drawings in Colt's hole by hole booklet than this item is not of much research use as to what else Colt may've done on PVGC's design that matches the way the course got built. And if a lot of the blue lines on this item match Crump's red lines then one wonders why Crump drew so many red line features on the topo map that hangs in the clubhouse which so closely matches the features that were actually built on the course.