Patrick,
Over the past few weeks, you keep parroting "Hear No Wilson" and "See No Wilson" by telling us that there is no contemporaneous evidence indicating that Hugh Wilson's Merion Committee were responsible for the planning of the routing of the golf course.
In that light, it's no wonder you avoided responding to my post yesterday addressed to you, which I'll reiterate again in case you missed it.
Also, in 1905 it was written that CBM was called in as a "friendly adviser" any time a course of consequence was being built in the east. You have no idea how many Alps holes Findlay may have thought CBM was responsible for in 1912, because you don't know either, nor does anyone else here, especially as the prescribed definition of the time included merely a front crossing bunkers beyond a rise and a mound in back.
When Merion Cricket Club gave Hugh Wilson credit for laying out the course AND for supervising the building and construction, they certainly knew what the hell a "layout" was, and what it required, and it was on PAPER, as is clear in the MCC Minutes of April 19th, 1911;
Your committee desires to report that after laying out many different courses on the
new land (
prior to construction - comments mine), they went down to the National Course
with Mr. Macdonald and spent the evening looking over his plans and the various data he had gathered abroad in regard
to golf courses. The next day was spent on the ground studying the various holes,
which were copied after the famous ones abroad.
On our return, we re-arranged the course and laid out five different plans. (
prior to construction - comments mine)
On April 6th Mr. Macdonald and Mr. Whigham came over and spent the day on the ground, and
after looking over the various plans, and the ground itself, decided that if we would lay
it out according to the plan they approved,
which is submitted here-with, that it would
result not only in a first class course, but that the last seven holes would be equal to
any inland course in the world. In order to accomplish this, it will be necessary to
acquire 3 acres additional.
Or the Thompson Resolution from the same meeting;
Whereas the Golf Committee
presented a plan showing a proposed layout of the new
Golf Ground which necessitated the exchange of a portion of land already purchased
for other land adjoining and the purchase of about three acres additional to cost about
$7500.00, and asked the approval of this Board, it was on motion.
This nonsense that there is no contemporaneous record of the Committee at Merion laying out the golf course prior to construction is the GCA version of the
BIG LIE, which if told repeatedly may have some of the gullible believing, not mentioning any names.