It might not be of interest to most here, but I think Mike raises a good topic.
As Mike mentions, PD was famous for having the owner hire a bunch of interns, some of whom never ran equipment, and his thinking was partially that some unique shaping would arise out of such inexperience. However, within the industry, at least early Dye courses were considered some of the worst built courses of the day.
Which is partly why I have always taken the tack of working with professional golf course contractors. I figure there are enough folks out there who already know how to build a course well and fast. Adding me to the mix really didn't help the golf world at all. And, in so doing, sometimes I get new (to me anyway) shaping, as a shaper has always worked for other architects and sometimes says "Fazio did this in a similar situation" to explain what was on the ground. (And, I have a few examples of Fazio borrowing from my design/shaping, too)
But, quality construction isn't about just the shaping. I always look for settled trenches, or greens, or banks, which indicate poor compaction, long, wet drainage swales, bad transitions causing mowing scalp, bad tie ins, irrigation leaks, perched or sunken catch basins, etc. Other architects like Mike and Tom could, and I wish they would, add to that "off the top of my head" list.
And, as I have mentioned here occasionally, schedule does matter as much as cost and product, and at some point, seeding in the prime window makes it a better choice not to redo a green surface or other design feature "one more time" to make it perfect or better. There is an old saying that a day on the front end of the job means a lost week at the end, a week equals a month, and a month can equal a year. So, it pays to be efficient from day one.
When you consider the business side - the owner has borrowed millions to build or rebuild this thing, and is expecting over $1M revenue in 2017, not getting that money in until 2018 means he needs a short term loan/cash infusion again, just to open. So, the architect and builder need to ask themselves if raising that little knob in the green is worth $1M. 99% of the time......it is not.
In my experience, most lawsuits by owners against builders are a result of just such lost revenues.