Is it me or does anyone else find similarity between containment mounds found on many modern designs over the past 40 years and the fact that so many links courses in Ireland are located between the mounding of sand dunes etc.

Just go back to the Lahinch thread and look at those photographs Mike Dugger posted and also think about many of them you have played or seen photos of....see anything familiar?  Care to comment?

Perhaps the picture at the top right is where the idear for containment mounds came from

Guys, like usual you all read more into a post/comment than there actually exists...all I said was do you find a similarity.

Ed, I agree and obviously there is a BIG difference between then and now with respect to designing containment mounds.

Ian, nothing was mentioned about routing in natural-vs-manmade terrain, but gee wizz, thanks for the education anyway  

David, is it really that easy to scare you off.

Naturally, there much more different between these two features of design than there are similarities, but as an observation only, with no comparisons to fundamental design elements, or as an aesthetic, I was merely caught by what appeared to visually be a similarity and then of course wondered if they could be connected and linked in some small way.

Dave, if you have something to offer, please do, I promise I won't yell at you, but the others should realize that I wasn't lashing out at them either, I just believe they, other than Ed, may have misunderstood, or read more into the original post.

Adam,

If you reread my original post you will see that I don't say that the mounding in Ireland is containment mounding.  As I glazed over the photos once again because I admire these courses so much I suddenly noticed the larger landscape which brought about these holes and thought, mind you, that I may have seen a similarity...but apparently my eyes MUST have playing tricks on me.  

"But not all mounds are containment."  That is absolutely true.  "Therefore containment involves more than just one mound or knob and is a function of size and placement."  This is also true.  I only noticed and commented on a familiar 'look' between the mounds/dunes that 'contained' the valley holes on these links legends and the containment mounding created by modern designs.  Are they the same? Absolutely NOT, but is the look familiar? are they a chip off the ole block? maybe.