Rich,
As Frank says, you are unfairly mis-characterising his comments. But you haven't answered my question, so it can't have been clear. Do you disagree with his criticism of the timing of the announcement and the start of the work?
Mark
Most of his rant was about the changes rather than the timing, but since you ask, I think that the timing was none of our business and those who seem to be gravitating towards some sort of of conspiracy theories regarding the long putter announcement should take off their tinfoil hats and smell the roses...
Vis a vis the rest of your actual post, i.e.....
"Rich,
You don't think his point about timing has any validity? I know you think these changes are a good thing, so wouldn't have expected you to agree with Ogilvy on that."
.....all I've said before is (in efect):
1. The Links Trust has the right to do what they want with the courses over which they have been given charge
2. As far as I can see from the words and pictures posted on this site, none of the changes seems ill-thought out or particularly ill-constructed
3. As far as the one change which I have actually seen (the 2nd) my on-site observation confirms my general observations as per 2. above
PS--Have you or Geoff actually seen any of the work?
And Frank, sorry for calling you "Mark"......
Rich