Sean,
Make no mistake about it, I'm not with Pat's total ideas on these threads, and have told him as much on the phone during our Merry Xmas call.
No one loves the National more then Pat, but the thing I find of great interest is that National is a course that you can never know enough about, and you have to keep an open mind to what other people think. I'm trying to do that, but Pat maintains it like he is the only one with a backstage pass. Yes, he has much more experience with the course then I, but still, I see things a lot differently there then him, and I'm not afraid to admit it either.
So I have a a few questions for Pat: (I want him to teach me what I'm not seeing)
--Pat has argud with Tom MacWood incessantly that the course was recovered from brambles, swamps and other natural occuring fauna, so bad that they had to ride ponies to look at it. (Pat, I too have read Scotland's Gift many many times.) So, "what areas of fairways were filled-in and or created, and where do you find your information on this IN PRINT?"
--Where does C.B. MacDonald, a man of little modesty, profess about his talent for creating these features in great detail? (Personally, given the character, I think C.B. would have been more then glad to have given great descriptions of building the National, all in great detail. Where is it, and where did you find it?