This piece, in Golf World but not yet live on the site, is a fine primer that folks of our ilk would use to attract folks of their ilk to an awareness of the distinction between courses.
Whitten keeps it SS, restricting his time in the pulpit to four salient points and one debatable one. Not all are affordable, but not all may be unavoidable.
Essential to a thorough and accurate restoration of a course is the selection of the most enthusiastic and appropriate firm for restoration; he uses the hackneyed expression
horses for courses in an appropriate and comprehensible manner for those who might not distinguish their Ross from their Robert, or who might wish that their Walter were a Vernon.
I realize these points are not news to our longest-standing contributors, but they are vital and long-fingered to the introduction of neos to golf course architecture. Buy a few extra copies of the magazine, find the link on the magazine site when it goes live in a few days, and suggest it to those in the know or the decision-making track/tract of your home club/course.
Pretty cool, as the Miley impersonator on SNL a few years back might huff, is the recognition afforded GCA contributor Dunlop White III. A quick search of "Dunlop White III" and "virtues of chainsaws" (the terms Whitten employs) brings up one of his GCA (found here:
http://www.golfclubatlas.com/in-my-opinion/) pieces.