"Rejection of geometric architecture may have been caused by.... geometric architecture itself."
Patrick:
That is most definitely possible, perhaps even very likely, and certainly sans any real evidence of any other reason. C. B Macdonald has certainly always been credited with dedicatedly making the effort and taking the time to build the first course in American with eighteen good holes (NGLA) and it would seem from his famous remark as to why he was inspired to do so that it was his abhorence towards the geometric architecture he found at that time. He even describes it in writing and it was the reason for his well-known remark, "The very soul of golf shreeks."