Dr. Mackenzie on paying your architect:
"Founders of golf clubs are often deterred from calling a first class architect because they think he may be expensive. An architect's fee is often less than a hundredth part of the total capital expenditure, and surely this is a small sum to pay for the assurance of perpetual prosperity."
Or...
"Even men of education have a curious disinclination to pay for mental labour. They are willing to pay stupendous sums for manual labour, but for mental labour, No!"
"It is strange that a committee consisting of doctors, lawyers, architects, and engineers who no doubt recognize the importance of mental training and experience in their own professions attach so little importance to it in golf course architecture. What does it matter what the fee of the expert is if, owing to his advice, the total cost can be reduced by fifty percent and far bette results obtained in addition? It is false economy to attempt to save a few thousand dollars in mental labour when without it there would be an additional cost of tens of thousands of dollars in manual labour. The unfortunate thing about golf courses is that every professional and almost every golfer thinks he can lay out a golf course."