Gentlemen,
20 or so years ago, George Bahto found a registration card (for a routing plan) in the Southhampton, NY surveyor's office. It was for the design of Sequoyah CC in Oakland. Some time later, I got a call from a Kaithern Hyndschaw, who I believe was the club historian - asking if I might come over and have a look at the archives in the Boardroom.
To the best of my recollection, there was a fairly primitive routing plan drawing, framed - and hung on the wall behind the large, heavy door of the meeting room.
There were some archival books, but most focused on the Oakland Open and articles that Hogan shot this and Snead did that. There was also a fabulous series of remodeling drawings, looked to have been dreamed up by Chandler Egan. Again, this is out of memory . . . . the club was founded in 1913, but I never got further into my research.
My half-baked conclusion - since I found nothing specific about Raynor - although the dates matched up when he was out here on his way to & from Hawaii - was the course was probably originally built using the Raynor plans, but with all sorts of deviations. I recall a terrific, alternate-route Channel Hole, but it looked as if it was either never built, or the land was surrendered to homes adjacent to the back side of the property.
My recollection is the 14th hole - a 225 yard par-3 - had formalized furrows adjacent and behind the green. It looked like bunkers had been built, but there were a line of trees planted in them. Was it once a Biarritz? It sure looked like it to me, but the club could not produce any original pictures from the original course.
#5, a short, drop-shot par-3 (I wondered if it was a Raynor Short) turned out to be a fill-in sometime in the late 1950's. I was asked for my recommendation and - echoing George's thoughts - if it was ever actually a Raynor there was almost nothing left, but in any event, the Egan plans provided the opportunity to bring a work of art back from the grave.
Kudos to Doug Nickels, who did the work; it is definitely worth a visit. He took a hodge-podge of tin-soldier tree plantings, homemade remodels and Green Committee meddling and put Humpty back together with some elegant panache and strategic competence. I'd love to see about 1/2 the trees removed, but the fun-factor is quite high for a members course. You'll have to ask him how faithful he was to Egan's plans.
I've no doubt Raynor breezed through there at some point - but archives had no reference to paying him for consulting or drawings. That stated, there has to be an explanation for that registration card in Southhampton . . . . . specifically for Sequoyah in Oakland.