"TEPaul,
What about GCGC pre NGLA?"
Patrick:
Yes? What about it?
What about Myopia too?
Do you recall what Macdonald said about those two courses pre-NGLA (as well as CGC) in his book?
"The ability to seed and how it affected architecture is a very interesting point.
I never considered the architectural constraints that alternative methods and a three year grow in would create."
Of course you didn't Patrick, and that's just another reason you're such a lame-brain and should listen to me more and more often. Have you ever bothered to read and appreciate what Cornish and Whitten said on that point on their heathland chapter and what they said about what lay under the heather and gorse and such of the heathland sites of Sunningdale and Huntercombe? That alone they mentioned was a virtual mother-lode discovery for inland golf and agronomy as well as architecture!
The other interesting and important factor that I think most overlook is it was also about the first time a professional architect actually slowed down and took the time and the far more available money to do something in one place! The very same thing was true of Fowler about three years later, and that too got as much or more notice as what Park Jr did a few years previous.
At least that's what C&W said. If someone can deny those facts and prove them historically inaccurate with others that deny them I'd love to see them try.