Excerpts from the Authors' Preface of The Architectural Side of Golf :
"...we have tried to look at this architectural side of golf from several different standpoints....
There is, for example, the traditional - what might be termed the classical view: and being ourselves catholic in feeling on the matter, we notice with regret the extent to which modern design tends to depart from the original Scottish models...
Then, again, a golf course is a field of manoeuvre and action, employing, as it were, the military and engineering side of the game. It opens up a series of tactical and strategical opportunities...
Thirdly, there is the artistic side. No reason exists why a golf course should not decorate a landscape rather than disfigure it....
Vitality is another quality that is essential. Instinctively we feel that one course is alive, another dead and insipid, lacking energy of expression...."
Tradition. Strategy. Artistry. Vitality.
Brilliant criteria in my book.
Mike