Cirba,
what complicates the case of Seaview-Bay is that they have on display a wonderful full set of Ross plans for the golf course -- even if they are redesign plans.
Mike Young -- you seem to focus in your comments here on the issue of label and scorecard claims about the designer. I think it would help if you shifted your focus onto the golf course and more openly acknowledged the value of doing research there into what features are prominent or distinctive. What makes these dead-name architects valuable, after all, is that most of the stuff they did was pretty good, and their good stuff was way better than what most everybody then and since has ever done. It would help to look for those elements in the design, esp. as member memories are notoriously suspect and in those many cases where clubhouse archives have been lost, burned or flooded. That's why archival work is needed, whether aerials, design plans, correspondence, telegrams.
In doing the Ross book, I found some courses where Ross' alleged presence could not be confirmed. I also found many cases where a bill, a train ticket or a hotel receipt plus a chain of travel (Birmingham, Mobile, Knoxville) further provided evidence of visits.
I think the best example of this, as suggested above, is what Bahto has done with Raynor. I was at Elkridge in Baltimore last week. It's a good course, not a great course, it has two miserable car wreck holes done by Ed Ault in the 1970s who didn't know a thing about classic design, and it has the bones of 16 pretty solid Raynor holes - restored (rescued) by Silva. The membership had no idea until very recently who Raynor was. Thanks to Bahto's research and Silva's work, they know now. And those sixteen teen holes are very impressive.
When I was there, a fellow came up to me and told me that before he was a member of Elkridge, he had been green chairman of Lookout Mountain, and the whole time he was there, niether he nor anyone else had ever heard of Seth Raynor. Thanks to Georga Bahto. Brain Silva and some supportive members at Lookout Mountain, its place now is phenomenal - a reborn Raynor.
That's why it's worth taking seriously the possibility that some of these dead guys had actually been there. In part, I don't have much faith in modern architects to do stuff that is better than what the classic guys did - and that includes you, Mike, as much as I like the courses you've done that I've seen (seven of them, at last count).