We are currently working on the restoration of Sedgefield CC in Greensboro NC. Sedgefield is one of Ross' truly great courses, a very unique routing with alot of angle, a wide variety of slope variation in the fairways, just amazing use of the natural landforms in my opinion.
A 1989 Green Reconstruction project failed to recapture the original dimensions of the fill pads and the contruction was shoddy at best. Greenside bunkers were added over the years to narrow the approaches and most every strategic fairway bunker was removed. The greens eventually lost nearly half their original size due to encroachment including all of the front and back corner locations.
When preparing the plan for the golf course, we had at our disposal photo copies of several sets of Ross' field notes, green drawings, as well as the original routing plan for all 36 holes. (Only one course was finished with three holes of the other course constructed but later abandoned) The GGO PGA Tour Event was played there off an on between I believe 38 and 75, there were numerous still photos as well as a mid 1930's aerial photo that showed significant discrepency between the course shown on Ross' field notes and the final version of the course that was constructed.
In an effort to get answers about the discrepencies in the bunkering, I had several meetings with various members on the committee to see what they remembered etc and to encourage them to look for any additional photos, notes, plans they might have.
At the end of one meeting a gentlemen ask me if I wanted to see an old set of drawings between two pieces of card board they had in a closet, he was sure they werent worth anything to me but if I wanted them I could have them. I immediately had them bring them to me and upon taking them outside into better light, they turned out to be the original blueprints that Mr Ross carried around the course when he made his final revisions. He had written numerous notes directly on the plans in lead and red pencil adding and removing bunkers as well as recommendations concerning tees, trees etc. Every note on the plan matched exactly what we saw on the aerial photograph from the 30's verifying what the original Ross course configuration was.
Nathan Cashwell in my office scanned each copy and we returned the originals to the club recommending that they be taken to a professional for proper preservation.
I will provide the Tufts Archives with the scanned files and I believe the club is going to preserve and frame the originals for display in the clubhouse.