I didn't even consider the impact WW1 had on golf courses there in terms of destruction, but excellent point. To add to my original post, I suppose one could say that the absence of Colt, Macdonald, Ross, Tillinghast, Mackenzie, Park and others opened the door for a slew of new and less heralded existing designers in the U.K. to come to the fore and build/expand their portfolios and reputations. This is arguably a good thing, as some excellent work was done during this period. But it's a fun exercise to think of what might have been had the stalwarts in golf course design spent more of their time at home designing courses as opposed to America. Of course, the jingoistic side of me looks at it from the perspective that your loss was our gain and that had fate not worked as it had not only would we have lost out on a lot of monumental and legendary courses, but the golfing world as whole.