Actually looking at your post again and your No 1, that it takes talent to knock character into every hole, that's definitely true it does take talent to do that but it takes more than talent!!
Even with all the talent in the world it also takes time!! It seems to me that fact has been proven over and over and over again with various golf courses and their architecture. If the most talented don't take the time it's probably not going to happen. That's definitely been true of hugely talented architects in the past, in the present and it will be in the future, I'm sure. Only those that really that the time, provided they do have real talent have a chance to create real quality throughout.
So maybe MacKenzie should win this contest. His career inventory is not small, medium to large actually and he was definitely a man on the move. So working as fast as he sometimes did with the overall quality of his career inventory maybe he should win.
But then there's Colt, an even larger inventory than MacKenzie's. Is Colt's career inventory course for course and hole for hole more solid than MacKenzie's, or Flynn's, or Alison's? Don't know enough about Colt's to tell, or even MacKenzie's or Alison's. Flynn's sure looks strong to me though, course for course and even hole for hole.