In the very first issue of Golf Illustrated (and Outdoor America) an article on golf course construction by Horace Hutchinson is featured (along with a couple of other featured articles).
In that article Hutchinson warns against architects starting a routing by first identifying and designing par 3 holes (and then filling in the rest around them).
He also warns against keeping an OB boundary on one side too long in a routing. He suggests breaking it up by 'diving into the middle' and then perhaps immediately back out to the boundary with the next hole.
Another thing he features is the correct overall balance and variety with length of holes; this is an issue I will have a whole lot more to say about as elaborated by some of those ODGs like Hutchinson and Macdonald----because to them in their time of analysis, review, criticism and suggestions and products it looks to be huge----really HUGE, maybe even the ultimate KEY to "ideal" golf course architecture----ala the ultimate point and revolutionary break-through idea of Macdonald with NGLA---leading him to call it the first example of 'golfing architecture!'
I have no doubt at all that Hutchinson was a very smart and respected guy in early architecture and with the sussing out of some important principles of GCA and such but with what he sometimes condemns it seems like a better policy for him would've been to suggest that perhaps his recommendations confirm that the exception makes the rule. Thank God Hugh Wilson and Merion East didn't take his suggestion with that routing.
And with blindness in architecture and what he said about Myopia vs NGLA regarding blindness it appears he was either pretty unobservant at Myopia or a bit blind himself in his architectural analyses? (Count 'em up, Boys because those courses have not changed that way with one exception---ie Myopia's 10th.
Some of these old articles are just remarakable. It shows a pretty dynamic tapesty of opinion back then!