Tom
A pleasure, I'm glad you like the image. And yes, I can print this out. We can also optimise to emphasise one or the other routing plan in the merged image. It should be sharp up to about A3 size. (Could I negotiate a look at the Colt booklet
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I wonder why the contours are so much clearer on the stick map? You can see the Colt plan has a fold in it, so it was probably a working plan and carried into the field. Perhaps the contours just faded from use, but I think they were always quite faint because Colt has drawn his blue pen over the major contours to emphasise them.
If we take that line on the 18th as the fairway centre, wouldn't the left hand portion of that fairway be blind from a tee on the 10th green? I don't know the course as well as you, but if you look at the old photos I sent you of the 18th ( the image from the 18th tee and the reverse image), I think it looks that way. Imagine chopping the current 18th fairway in half, but having more fairway, beyond, below and to the left of the cliff (i.e in the direction between the 9th green and the clubhouse). A tee shot down the left portion of that fairway configuration (a dogleg) would fly up and over the current 10th tee and down the far side!
I'm still thinking about the timelines of various holes. One other point to consider is that the unattributed drawings are from before Aug 1915. We know this because of that Travis article on the reverse Pine Valley course, which reproduces some of them. I assume that these were all drawn at the same time and are one set. From those drawings, the 13th is right and so is the 15th. No 12th for some reason which is a bit strange, and the 14th is that cape hole. But combining this info with the dates of the old photos from Colt's scrapbook, I think the course was pretty much done by 1916. Which was what I was driving at, on some of the earlier posts; why did things drag on so long in getting 18 holes in play?
Actually, Travis calls those drawings- "engravings" which is a bit odd. (I don't think I included a copy of that paragraph when I gave you the photocopies at Alpine).