"One other name mentioned, but I didn't see that it was confirmed in the thread that he worked on Seminole, is Ed Connor.
I looked in Cornish and Whitten's book and sure enough Ed Connor is listed in there, after Mr. Wilson, as the rest. architect in 1991 @ Seminole. (Greens)."
Is that right? I never heard that before. I could be wrong but I think what basically Ed Connor was all about is he was what might be called a green grade-shooter and a very detailed one at that. He actually invented some instrument called a Lasodite or something like that.
Maybe what really happened with those greens that Pete Dye is talking about is Seminole hired Famous Amos Jones, the black shaper/contractor from Georgia and Ed Connors to come in there together and both of them got completely shit-faced before going in there or maybe over there with Dunphy or one of the other professional drinking members and sort of got mixed up about what they were doing or who was supposed to do what or maybe even where they were. If they knew Dick Wilson at all that might not be all that hard to do.
I love that story of Wilson going to some course and he goes to the hotel first and was so loaded he took a leak in one of the flower pots in the hotel lobby and the conceirge comes over to him and says: "Excuse me sir, what to you think you're doing?" and Dick says to him: "I'm taking a leak in a flower pot in the hotel lobby; what does it look like I'm doing?"