Phil,
My contention is that by 1910, the three courses that were clearly acknowledged as the best in the country were Myopia, Garden City, and NGLA, which was just opening.
They were all designed by amateurs. Thus, ALL of the best courses by 1910 were indeed designed by amateurs and my saying so is a true statement.
I'm not including Shawnee because I don't believe it opened until 1911, correct?
Tom MacWood has tried to list a bunch of courses, primarily those designed by HH Barker, along side them on yet another "list", in some attempt to give courses like Waverly and Atlanta Athletic the same credentials when that is simply preposterous.
It doesn't fly to anyone who knows golf history and golf courses, but it might look like expert opinion to those with simply a passing interest.
Tom has started this thread by taking a statement I made on the Merion thread...that Myopia, GCGC, and NGLA were generally acknowledged as the three best courses in 1910, that they were all designed by amateurs, and that was the model Merion sought to emulate and did so, and attempted to refute it by seemingly creating a thread that is simply about generic golf courses by 1910, yet his motives are once again completely transparent, and every day he's tried to fit insults about "insurance salesmen" into the dialogue and then accuse others of using this as a Merion thread....it's quite comical, really.
In fact, the irony is that he's only proven my statement to be more true than most probably realized, by his continued biased refusal to acknowledge hard physical evidence such as what I produced in last night's post.
Thanks, and no offense was meant to Tillinghast's early contributions here.