"His advice was not "general" and we do know he was "SPECIFICALLY" involved in the layout, as opposed to generally discussing principles."
David Moriarty:
How do you know his advice was not general?
If somehow you think you actually do know that his advice could not have been general then would you mind telling me what there is or ever was about Merion East's golf course that Macdonald specifically did? I'm sure Merion and the rest of us would be very happy and interested to know that.
I don't know if Macdonald's advice and involvement with Merion was general or specific---I don't believe anyone left alive knows, and I certainly know you don't know.
And that is precisely my point, always has been.
On the other hand, given all that Alan and Hugh Wilson (and Richard Francis) said Wilson and his committee were involved in at Merion it is not a difficult deduction to determine who was involved in probably most all the specific details of the golf course.
I don't know all the different people who did various and specific things there in those six months and either do you. I don't think anyone alive knows. Macdonald probably didn't know because he wasn't there during that six months except possibly before it began.
But Hugh Wilson and his committee sure as hell knew who did every specific detail of that golf course then. They were the only ones who were there working on it every day.
And what did they say about that in general terms? Well we have that---eg it was in the main Wilson with his committee. What did they say about who did what specifically? Nothing, with the exception of what Francis said obviously because he was so proud of his brainstorm on #15 and #16.
So if they said that no one other than them did anything specifically and they said Wilson and the Committee did the course for six months what does that tell you about who logically had to be there involved every day in the specifics of the layout, design and construction of the course?
Let's say Macdonald told them to build that Alps, or the redan, or the so-called Eden green. Let's say he stayed there for a week or more and he made them a drawing of those holes or more and then oversaw the work. Let's say he did something that specific or more. Don't you suppose they would have mentioned that given the nature of the various credit given in those two reports?
But of course it has never been in your interest to even acknowledge what both Wilsons (Francis et al) said about Merion East and the "Special Construction Committee" even in general terms which is the only kind of context anyone ever said anything about the creation of Merion East.
I listed all the things Alan Wilson said in the remainder of his report even if in fairly general terms about the course and the "Committee" and I noticed you not as much as acknowledged an iota of any of it, much less commented on it.
It's isn't any wonder at all why.
You're not interested in the truth about Merion, you're merely interested in promoting and furthering, despite everything else to the contrary, your "Hypothesis" that Macdonald has been discounted and minimized in what he did with Merion and your hypothesis that all of us here are out to perpetuate that discounting and minimizing of Macdonald's part in Merion.