Mike
Are you saying golf architecture isn't as good today as it could have been from nepotism and inbreeding?
Mike,
I'm sort of saying the opposite.....when there is a period of almost no new courses then people are laid off at firms and they get into something else...but family usually stays....whether they are good or not.....
Both Mikes:
Absolutely right on. The two biggest firms in the business have let go several well-known associates who have not much to do now; but of course their sons and sons-in-law and nephews are still on the payroll.
I am really proud of my son for NOT wanting to be a golf course architect. But if he had been interested, I know he would have been crucified by all the other SOA's out there. [SOA = Son of Architect]
The real legacy is Pete Dye's because there are so many of us non-family members who are on our own. None of us ever had the security of being on a payroll, so we had to learn to roll with the punches in the economy.