Tom Huckaby,
The "land" wasn't just there waiting to be cleared and seeded.
CBM altered the land at NGLA.
Remember, he duplicated to a degree, what became, template holes. The redan, the short, the eden, the cape, the road hole, the bottle, the hog's back, the narrows, the alps, the leven, the punchbowl, the sahara.
These holes weren't laying there, waiting to be discovered, they were created, quite unnaturally.
Shinnecock is different, in the land and in the designs, original and amended.
Sebonack is unique and bears no resemblance to either of it's neighbors.
Southampton has a connection to NGLA even though the land is different ..... the designer. Thus, the architecture is familiar because the brain of the designer was patterned, creatively.
One of the most interesting studies that reveals how the same land can yield credible, if not meritorious, diverse designs
is York CC, where both Flynn and Ross provided seperate designs over the same piece of property.
So, in the ultimate, it's not that the land yields a single design, or a general pro forma, but that man, through his creative efforts designs enormous variety by amending the land to suit his concepts.
Shadow Creek should have taught you that