Don,
I don't think its fair at all to use a name who related something in private conversation. If you want it, contact me off line. Nor do I think relating that an architect is getting better at drainage calling out anyone. Quite the opposite, especially when he has a team of others in place trying to take care of what he prefers not to. Most firms are that way, really.
Plus, as I understood the conversation, Bill actually told him he always preferred to focus on the art and the play.
I highly doubt we can cast the entire generation of younger (or older) architects as being white hat guys.
To be honest, I really did nothing wrong at all, but I am not surprised I have somehow offended you. Nor has Mike, for that matter, even if I agree with you, as I have heard him speak of this one bunker for a quite a few years now! It really is wrong, construction wise, but for the client to decide if they want to continue to fix washouts to enforce the CC vision, or change it in the next bunker renovation. I know most of my clients would advocate changing any hard to maintain (and maintain the integrity) design. Some wouldn't even ask me.....
Say what you will about the 50-60's guys, they never let water drain in a bunker, at least not that I have seen. At some point in the 1980's, whether because some came into the business without design or construction training (i.e. pros, but also land planners and others) or there were simply too many courses being built for experienced construction personnel t be on all of them, or we all thought we had enough money to fool or control mother nature, I noticed more experimentation or ignoring of long held "good practices."
Oh this specific topic, I have been guilty of letting a lot of water drain from high mounds into my bunkers from the back. I have seen the results - add Better Billy Bunker or similar to make the design work. Where less money flows, I see the turf shouldn't extend more than a few feet above the sand, the sand ought to be flatter, and maybe there should just be one constant ridge above the bunker. Whenever there are ridges and valleys, the drainage collects in the valleys, and accelerates into the bunker, washing out sand.
So, we all need to keep relearning the basics I guess.