Despite our dyspeptic friend's willingness to embrace this piece of history, there is some interest here. In preparation for the Olympics, Walter Travis was brought in to suggest some changes to the Foulis course, including work on the bunkers.
The article touches on another factoid, that being that the games were originally slated to be held in Chicago, but were moved when the organizers of the World's Fair raised a stink. An interesting comparison as Rio is the only Olympics I can think of where there was serious discussion of a venue change. Perhaps its happened before since the move from Chicago to St. Louis, who knows. If anything, it seems that the "IOC" was less influential back then than the power players in the host country.