Neil
I think a safety audit is complete BS unless something has fundamentally changed i.e. with routing, housing. My god, Painswick would have half its holes closed!
Jeff
So perhaps there's a chance that the original 2nd and 16th greens are on tape, if the redo work was done in '68. There used to be a Shell website where you could order tapes of the more obscure matches, but it seems to have disappeared.
The reports by Colt and Alison (individually) from 1913(Colt), 1920 and 1927 (Alison) are interesting reading. Using these with the original Colt routing plan (1911) you can piece together most of the development of the course until Alison left the continent. Some of it's hard to be sure of and most of the recommended changes involve steadily bunkering the layout....tightening it up.
They are both somewhat critical of the original landscaping work, both architects emphasize that they want natural looking sand faced bunkers with a rugged appearance. Colt uses "torn out" to describe the appearance he wants, a term he also used at Pine Valley and Hamilton. His famous bunker at the 8th at St George's Hill is the ultimate "torn out" ridge to produce an awesome bunker...that's the effect he wants at Toronto too. Alison has some sketches along the same lines, showing irregular faces of bunkers with the sand high up.
I pretty sure that the photo that Jeff Mingay posted is from just after initial construction and you can see why the bunkers were unsatisfactory to Colt if he wanted sand faced...
I haven't seen an later pics of Tornonto.
Anyway I'm sure that Martin Hawtree plans to build sand faced bunkers similar to the recent redo work at Sunningdale, but I don't know how much these will resemble what was left by the time Alison had finished with Toronto. And I also have no idea where he intends to move some and add some?
(Form the 1913 report Colt did want an addition of a bold "torn out" bunker to the 11th front hillside, so perhaps that what hawtree has in mind?)