Nigel-
One of my great disappointments (and I've said as much here before) is that my interest in golf's playing fields did not develop earlier in my life, so I never seized, as a young man, the opportunity to play the old courses at Fort Harrison, the Speedway, or Woodland before their revamps.
I have an odd internal conflict of being fascinated by both Bill Diddel and Pete Dye. It gets harder to find places to enjoy the former because the latter keeps plowing 'em under and re-doing it all!