Adam, I take your point about needing to have had a good deal of exposure to music or courses in order to be able to make an educated guess. Until last summer I had never played a Tillinghast course. I was treated to a round at Ridgewood. My initial reaction was that it looked like what I had expected a Tillinghast course to look like, from pictures of his courses I'd seen in books and on this website. Now, I don't pretend that from my exposure to a single Tillie course I have a comprehensive grasp of his style, of course not. (I doubled that exposure later on that trip with a close encounter with both courses at Winged Foot.) But there must have been something - probably the style of the bunkers - which caused me to make that connection.
In this country I have been lucky enough to have played quite a few MacKenzie courses, and I have become very closely acquainted with Alwoodley, Mac's first essay. I have also been fortunate enough to visit the Meadow Club (before and during the revision of the greens) and Pasatiempo. Yet I cannot recognise a style, probably because his bunkering on the English courses has not survived. To my limited vision the only thing these courses have in common is that Mac brilliantly used the topography each time and, because the tpography is so different, the courses are very different. That is why I suggested Fowler as having an unrecognisable style - each of the courses of his that I know is totally different from the rest.