willy;
Why the 30s? Course building dropped off precipitiously after the Stock Market Crash.
Tommy;
Ok...I'll come clean. Robinson it was!
Actually, do you know that I played the only Ted Robinson course on the east coast, a place formerly known as Tantallon CC in Maryland (it was his first design). Ted had been a landscape architect who worked primarily with housing developments, and you'd probably not be surprised to hear that his first uninformed venture into course design actually came out better than many of his later efforts once he thought he understood what a golf course really should be.
Believe it or not, there's actually a par four with a completely blind approach shot to a green sitting tucked down in a natural dell. There isn't a waterfall on the course, nor are there too many other incongruous or finicky features.
ahhh..the perils of a little knowledge.