Sven,
All great information that you are posting, thank you! But please tell us all how you would restate and correct the myth that many tend to believe that The Donald Ross Society, who should be well educated Ross experts, are promoting on their website which is cut and pasted below:
"Of all the courses that bear Ross' name, either as original designs or as renovation projects, he probably never even saw a third of them, and another third he visited only once or twice. Given the constraints of train and car travel in those days, repeat visits were difficult to arrange. Though Ross was a voracious traveler, he did much of his design work from his home in a cottage behind the third green at Pinehurst. There he worked from topographic maps, drew up blueprints, and wrote simple but sharply-worded instructions that his construction crew knew how to implement."