"As for post # 58....I think he did a good job in an impossible situation...."
MikeY:
Why do you think Moraghan's was an 'impossible situation'?
Is it because HE WAS the guy who found himself in the position of trying to bridge the agronomy/architecture issue on US Open sites and such?
If a "championship agronomist" arrives at a future US Open site and on his own tells that club that they need new tees or redesigned bunkers or a green moved, is that considered championship agronomy or is that golf course architecture?
But I suppose the question is, was that the kind of thing that Tim Moraghan did ON HIS OWN, or was he acting on the instructions of others in that vein?