I should add here that when I review a course, I rate what I find (not what I might expect to find). The golf course is what it is and if someone other than the original designer improved it or mucked it up, so be it. However, I do think it is interesting to check out courses, especially older ones, and try to identify what you think has changed vs. what the designer might have originally intended. To do that, you need to know quite a bit about the designer as well as the course itself. Sometimes, extensive information on the course is not available or too time consuming to uncover (most of us do have day jobs). In those cases, you have to go on your own instincts based on what you know about the architect and what you have seen of his work. But with some architects, identifying what they did and didn't do is not easy.