Frankly, to take this even farther and hopefully stir even more controversy, I'd recommend that if it is Tom Doak who ends up getting the project to design the course at Bayberry that Tom go into it with a bit of a "theme" much like Macdonald went into NGLA with a bit of a "theme" of somewhat emulating European holes and emulating little bits and pieces and nuances of European holes in concept or actually.
I'd recommend that Tom Doak make his "theme" at Bayberry that he'll design and produce holes that are wholly original to the land over there, holes that're wholly "site specific" and not in the slightest bit "template", "copies" of anything anywhere or even so-called "concept copies".
Furthermore, I'd recommend that Tom Doak (if he gets the project) guard the pre-construction topos with his life--don't let anyone without a strict construction "need to know" see those preconstruction topo contour lines and then blend those holes into that land so naturally that nobody ever will know what happened--what came before or after or what once was.
I'll even volunteer to get into the township or county offices following construction and steal all their preconstruction topos "Watergate" style so there won't be any evidence in the future.
TomD, this will be your ultimate chance to show that imaginationless copycat design slacker, C.B Macdonald, for just what he was! And also your chance to show that engineering oriented Seth Raynor to be just what he was, an engineer who never knew how to meld his architectural engineering into nature--or even worse yet, didn't care to!
This is even your chance to go your own architectural hero, Alexander Mackenzie, one step better and take his own fascinating concept on "camouflage" in golf architecture to the nth degree so nobody will ever know what was your hand and what was God's.
This is your chance to outshine the great NGLA 95 years later and show us all what those old guys were dreaming about if they had the facility and the mechanized resource! And best yet right juxtaposed to NLGA! Go one step more and take the trees down over there at Bayberry so everyone will be able to see your course from NGLA and vice versa!
With Alexander's nth degree golf architecture "camouflage" application at Bayberry if anyone ever wants to take pot shots at you in the future, just like the Boers and their naturalized trenches to the British they'll never be able to figure out where you are or where your architecture begins or ends.
This is your opportunity to solve this on-going unsolvable mystery of how the engineering look of NGLA blends so well into nature, what once was natural grade etc, etc. This is your opportunity to prove that it doesn't! This is your opportunity to "camouflage" every single nuance of your architectural engineering!
This is your best opportunity to put that copycat curmudgeon Macdonald and his pencil wielding, dirt volume calculator, Seth Raynor, to shame once and for all! And best of all you can do all this right on their very western doorstep!!
