Tom MacW asked;
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How did Colt route 12 thru 15? When did those holes finally come into form?"
That's on the routing map that hangs in the clubhouse. It's complicated and I'll talk about those holes and others later. Basically those holes apparently came into their completed design form in 1917 probably in the last half of 1917. They had not been constructed, however, when Crump died suddenly in the beginning of 1918.
"How do we know Crump strugled with the design of those holes?"
We know that from numerous, numerous sources and a ton of written material. That fact is all over PVGC's records in all kinds of ways. Even how it was finally resolved has been recorded (although perhaps still not conclusively) since the beginning. It's pretty interesting.
"Who is responsilbe for the blue and red stick routing?"
First of all, Tom, the so-called second and last routing map is more than a 'stick routing', as you say, but Colt and Crump are responsible. There may be a few other notations on that apparently second and last routing map from another or others, though. It seems pretty evident that Crump continued to use that routing map and to continuously alter it, perhaps for years.
"Finegan's fixation on the $10,000 payment is an interesting sidebar, but really doesn't help clear up who did what, in fact it muddies the water IMO."
Finegan doesn't have a fixation on that $10,000 payment Tom, although you may have. Finegan simply mentions it in a small paragraph as an interesting story and one that he concludes to be perhaps the distorted recollection of an old man (37 years later this was first mentioned by Baker). Jim Finegan concludes that paying an architect in that day and age $10,000 was simply completely unprecedented and completely exorbitant, particularly for such a short amount of time. Why would anyone resist that assumption as the fact that a payment that large back then truly would've been exorbitant and very likely completely unprecedented? To me it's a very valid question on Finegan's part. Perhaps you and Paul don't like to hear it questioned because it appears to question Colt's contribution but if you read Finegan's book and read it carefully even that isn't true.
The reason Finegan questioned Colt's contribution is twofold.
First, because he does not believe that the course and its holes turned out in design that similar to Colt's hole drawings! Finegan mentioned that the holes of PVGC compared to Colt's hole drawings "have some similarities...but many differences."
Paul Turner disputes that but one must understand that at this point Paul Turner has never seen Colt's hole drawings (except hole #17 which was in Finegan's book). Paul is simply relying on what Tom Doak said about those Colt hole drawings ("That the strategies appear similar"). On that note, anyone knows that holes in golf may have completely similar strategies but not be similar holes or similar looking holes. We have just redone a hole at GMGC that has remarkably similar strategies to ANGC's #13 because the evidence proves that Perry Maxwell dedicatedly attempted to copy the strategies of ANGC's #13 there in what I call a "concept copy" (one with exactly similar strategies that may not look much at all the same).
Second, and most importantly, Finegan made a very simple but extremely meaningful assumption in his research (in my opinion) that the date on the second and last routing map meant the date that Crump finished the routing of PVGC! That, in my opinion, although an understandable thing to assume was incorrect and basically took Jim Finegan, and perhaps anyone else who's ever looked at that routing map down the wrong road to the wrong conclusion! Since that date preceded the arrival of Colt, Finegan (and maybe others) assumed that Crump must have finished the routing before Colt arrived. That date on the routing map is pretty faint now but my strong assumption is that that date is the surveyor's date and the date the surveyor finished the topo map and gave it to Crump! So one can start to see the significance of that apparently incorrect assumption.
The blue and red lines? It's my strong belief that no one has understood the significance of what they meant until perhaps two years ago. I've asked all those there now who know that course best, including John Ott, who knows as much about that course and its history as anyone has and he said to his knowledge no one has ever noticed the significance of the red and blue lines.
Who noticed their significance? I did. Why? Because researching this subject about 2-3 years ago I noticed that Colt used a light blue pen or pencil throughout his individual hole drawing booklet (from Finegan)--apparently the very same light blue lines that appear on that second and last routing map. (The use of similar colored pencils is something Wayne and I picked up from researching Flynn as it appears Flynn used a rusty colored pencil in the field almost throughout his carreer!). But whose to say that Crump may not have picked up and used that light blue pencil? Here's the reason why I concluded it had to be Colt. Firstly, the drawing style between the blue lines and the red lines (Crump) is vastly different but secondly, and more significantly, it's a well known fact (recorded) that Crump made a now semi famous remark to his friends (later written by his friends) that Colt's positioning of green #2 off to the left of where it is now was "NO GOOD!" So I looked at that second and last routing map and there in light blue pencil drawn off to the left was the green on #2 with the tee for #3 right in the middle of where #2 green is now! So with that I concluded that the light blue lines on the second and last routing map had to have been Colt's. I'm sure you can see the significance of all this.