A friend of mine loaned me one of his prize books - a first edition of Out of the Rough by Bernard Darwin. It's a collection of essays culled from his writings for Country Life and The Times. I don't have Silverman's book but it's possible some appear in his collection.
Six of the essays are portraits of golfers - Sarazen, Travis, Arthur Croome, Ouimet and more. Others are on various aspects of the game. But one describes his experience on a course he refuses to name (it's Rye, based on his description of the holes) with an architect (Simpson?) who is asked to review a committee's plan to "make less perilous a road that runs through the course."
Darwin's last few sentences would be appreciated by any architect. After spending most of the day on the course with the architect, he says, "If anybody thinks that golfing architects do not work hard and earn their living by the sweat of their brow, I hereby throw down my gauntlet and will meet him with niblicks. That is to say, when I have recovered. I must have a little rest first."