Paul
In Colt's advertisements he included The Addington as one of his designs, co-designs or redesigns. Also in article announcing/describing the course:
'The golfers of London have been hearing rumors for some time past of the new course that Mr.Abercromby, with Mr.Colt as his consultant has been making at Addington....Addington is one of the prettiest of places, with a glorious stretch of view; some of the holes have obviously dramatic and thrilling qualities, and all have the appearance of sound golfing holes. It will clearly be a very good course....There is a fine sweeping of roll in the ground, and for the visitor who walks the course from point to point, there is some hard climbing to be done, but the holes have been so ingeniously devised that the player, when he takes them in the proper order, will have the irreducible minimum of mountaineering to do. As far as the playing of his strokes are concerned, he will have no cause to complain of hills; there are gentle, natural waves to the ground such as make interesting lies and stances, but there is no need of any qualities of the chamois, unless, perhaps, the ball is topped into one or two deep and ominous ravines that make fine cross-hazards and once in them, the golfer has no right to complain. One of the first questions asked about the new course to-day relates to mountains made by a too ruthless architect upon hte putting greens. In this respect Mr.Abercromby and Mr.Colt have, I think, set about their work in a spirit of discreet kindliness, which they will have no cause to regret. The greens are not of a billiard table flatness; they have wavelets in them, but they are flat in their essence and if the golfer cannot lay his putts dead or cannot hole out, when some churl of an opponent refuses to consider that he is dead he will only have himself to blame. It is practically only at the one-shot holes that the bunkers are yet made, so that one cannot, as a rule, tell how hard it will be to get on to the greens. Knowing the architects, I do not suppose it will be too easy...At the long holes there are no bunkers as yet, save one particularly voracious little fellow with a positively vemonous cast of countenance, who is edging his way into the home green; but for the most part there are so many features in the natural lie of the land that no bunkers are needed to point virtues of the holes....And all this, and enormously much more has been done in the some seven months. What prodigious fellows are thes architects! I never cease to stand aghast at them.' ~~ B.D.