David:
I think facts and history can prove that most of those top-named architects of that era were really adaptable no matter where they went.
The only real chink in the armor of a few of them seemed to be how to handle golf architecture around certain environments where Mother Nature was inclined to really tear things up.
In my opinion, this was true of Macdonald/Raynor on courses like Lido and The Creek or even Fishers Island.
This isn't meant to be a knock or criticism of them necessarily because after-all who could have imagined back in that day or had any historical understanding golf architecture-wise with something like the incredibly destructive effects of that infamous hurricane of 1938?
Back in that day I think there was a ton of the caveat of drainage, drainage, drainage in a sheet flow or naturally diminishing way, if you know what I mean.
The other caveat was obviously "don't f.... with Mother Nature" when she's in one of her 100 year anger cycles.
Some obviously heeded those kinds of things back then better than others.
