Mike Cirba,
1. As for your comments to me about your misinterpretation of the de St. Jorre book, if you have a problem with his dates, take it up with him. My objection was to the way you twisted the contents of the book to try and establish that 'Nipper' was responsible for laying out the new holes in 1898-1899. It doesn't say that, and your reliance on the book to try to establish that point was and is disingenuous.
2. Is it really so hard to properly source the articles you post? Because not doing so is Bush League. Surely when Joe supplies these articles to you, he gives you the paper and dates? Yet again and again you post articles without the date and/or source, especially when the date and source may call whatever your point into question question. Are you ever going to stop playing games here?
3. For example, it must have finally dawned on you that you can't credit A. Campbell with expanding Brookline's course in 1898-1899 if he wasn't even here, so you posted an article indicating that he was the professional at TCC in 1896, and you even call our attention to this obviously erroneous date. You didn't bother to mention that this article was written around 1945 almost a half century after the dates in question. Bush League.
4. You know that there are no contemporaneous references to A.Campbell acting as the professional in 1896, and you know that this is a highly suspect claim. Campbell would have been around 16 years old at the time! Yet you pass it off as if you have somehow proven your point. I've got news for you, Mike. Intentionally muddying the waters with obviously mistaken source material may prove a point about you, but not about what happened at Brookline.
5. Along the same lines, I notice on the other thread that you are still claiming Myopia's original course as 2025 yards, based on something written
but not sourced or verified 70+ years later. Here you post (but don't properly attribute) an article from April 3, 1899 about the Country Club. The same article appeared in the Globe on April 2, 1899, and contained the following about MYOPIA:
"Nine holes were laid out in 1894, with a total length of 2970 yards." Typical. You just ignore that which doesn't support your position, and continue on in that other thread as if the May distances must be accepted as gospel. Bush League.
Funny, I thought all that great information on Alex Campbell would elicit more discussion. Talk about someone whose contributions are completely ignored and unknown in modern tiimes!
Do you think we should jump to attention each time you stumble into discovering that there was more to early American course design than Hugh Wilson and his buddies? If so, think again.
Oh well...I guess if we've already proven we don't really know when he arrived in this country we can't pretend to be expert about him, now can we?
And how exactly have you proven this? A single article, improperly attributed, written almost a half century later? Bush League.