I've heard tell about how director John Ford - who, even though he was John Ford, didn't edit or have final cut on his pictures -- used to make sure that the picture he wanted to see was the one that got released. He'd set up the shot (and he did this on any type shot, close-up or two-shot or establishing shot, it didn't matter) and let the scene and the camera start rolling, but when he had the segment of the scene he wanted in the can, he'd just put his hand over the camera lens and block everything out. And then he'd set up the next shot and do the same, and so on. In short, John Ford was editing the picture in his head and in the camera, and not giving the actual editor any chance at all to make a different picture out of the material; Ford provided him with material (and only enough material) such that the film could only be edited one way...Ford's way.
Any equivalent technique in golf course architecture?
Peter