Mike Cirba, a few comments and questions based on your two posts above.
1. For years you have insisted that CBM definitely could not have worked out even a rough routing in 1906 because, according to you, it would have been impossible to even roughly route the course due to the "impenetrable" brush on the site. Now you have finally come to acknowledge that the course was at least "planned in a general way" before the land was cleared. Given that you have now conceded your main objection to the theory that the course was at least roughly routed in 1906, on what factual basis are you still insisting that the rough routing could not possibly have occurred in 1906?
2. Regarding your "observation related to the 4 acre width, you seem to have finally acknowledged what I (and others) have been telling you throughout this thread (and before.) Not even the features CBM had described pre-option fit in your mythical four acre strip. (I have to say that it is a little frustrating to read you present it as if you you are the one teaching us about this fact. I've explained this exact point to you repeatedly. It is why I have been telling you, Jeff, and others to look at the early maps since the second page of this thread!)
Also, the point you don't seem to have thought through, though, in your "observation," is that this had already been decided pre-option, just as CBM told us in Scotland's Gift. He had already decided on the holes and features which make your theory about stuffing the course into 110 acres impossible.
You wrote, "Whether this was due to a restriction placed by the developer on how the land could be used or the original intent of CBM we'll likely never know without a copy of the original Sales Agreement(s)." We already know (and you just acknowledged) that before the option CBM had already decided on property which would have effectively killed any notion of a large parcel of leftover land. We also know that the developer was not going to sell CBM land for a housing project! So for you to say that "we'll likely never know" is misleading, at best. We already know to a strong probability. Sure, it would be nice to have confirmation from the records of the actual transactions, but the overwhelming weight of the evidence suggests that from the beginning of the planning process or before, CBM did not intend to reserve a large section of land for 60 building lots for his members.