Terry
Two things, firstly I didn't say that the way they went about the changes to the Jubilee was equivalent to how they went about things with TOC, I suggested that doing things differently for TOC didn't make it invalid. Where I made the legal comment was to Mark P who seemed to be reaching for some sort of precedent as if this was case law. (Mark - if that wasn't your intent, apologies)
Secondly, you can be up front and open about the process and how you manage things without necessarily publicising whats been deliberated. In other words here's what we're doing and here's the process that lead to that decision. Peter Pallotta posted on another thread a link to the Links Trust 2010 accounts which gives an insight into structure and makes mention that the minutes of the regular Management Team meetings with the Links Management Committee are made public. I'll leave it to others to go and investigate.
Tom
Most of the mainstream golf media seem to be on the side of pulling back golf technology and criticising the role of the R&A in how we arrived at where we are now. Then you have my pal John Huggan, I can't recall who he rights for, but whoever it is certainly isn't going out there way to charm the R&A by employing him.
Niall