While you guys are cavorting about, exploring your inner selves... This recent welcoming of Jim Engh and a mention of a round table got me thinking of a suggestion that didn't involve myself!
We seem to be getting to a very nice group of architect participants. Even though guys like Clyde Johnston and Kelly Blake Moran and a number of others aren't exactly 'regular' posters, I suspect they are regular lurkers.
What if we did have a "round table" button where ONLY GCAs (golf course archies - Tony) had one month to respond to about 3-5 strictly golf course design and construction questions, posed by ONLY someone that has actually written a credible golf book or credible blog that deals with architecture in the main? For those like Ian who walks both sides of the fence of credible blog and archie, he can stay within the theme of doing it to himself and ask himself questions...
But seriously, in order to actually qualify to post responses to the "questions of the month" you have to have actually had to design and or constructed in a golf course project (new construction or remodel/restored) in a significant way. Not just ridden on a dozer while visiting a golf project, nor just designed holes on paper as a hobbiest or 'consultant' who has not actually put their design ideas in the dirt! With a month timeline or life of the thread to answer, the busy archie's schedules would be accomodated.
I think that would get down to serious questions, with serious answers, yet highlight design/construction differences in philosophies and techniques between the various practicing designers. Maybe even they would learn a thing or two from a colleague of an idea they hadn't previously considered.
I suspect that sort of inter-colleague discussion goes on at ASGCA's forums and dinners. But, let's face it folks, most of us GCA.com'ers don't get invited to those events, or archipaloozas...