Tom,
As is usual you twist words and simply argue out of stupidity.
"If the aerial on Google is representative of the course at present, calling the Lower course a restored Tilly course is inaccurate, and insulting to good and accurate restorations everywhere. There has to be 50 to 60 bunkers that bear no resemblance to the bunkers Tilly built either in position or in appearance. You would have thought the least he would have done is restore the original rough look of the Hells Half Acre bunker..."
Go ahead Tom, show me where I stated that the course had been RESTORED and that the work has been COMPLETED!
You even QUOTED MY POSTING where I said, "The work that Rees Jones and his crew are currently doing at Baltusrol Upper and Lower in recovering long missing Tillinghast features is also terrific. Once again bunkers are being both put back to where they originally were and shaped and including features as they originally were built. They are also slowly recovering the green entrances that were done away with in the past by turning them into rough frontings. The Lower will get rave reviews during the 2016 PGA..."
Rees Jones is the same as EVERY other architect working today or in years past. They are paid to do the work they are hired to do. To make the comment, "You would have thought the least he would have done is restore the original rough look of the Hells Half Acre bunker..." shows just how little you know about and understand the process. It is not up to him to tell the cluib what it WILL DO, but rather to advise them. If THEY CHOOSE not to do something neither you nor anyone else should blame him for not doing it.
So you don't like Rees' work; that is your privilege to feel that way and even express it in print. To do so by twisting what someone else stated to the point of not only MISREPRESENTING but CHANGING WHAT THEY ACTUALLY STATED proves once again that your comments are AGENDA-driven and only seeking to argue.
I would have simply not commented but you completely MISREPRESENTED what I stated. Now you can go on and say whatever you like, but again you show yourself the fool...