As someone involved in the process at Sleepy Hollow I also hope that we got it right. I do think the odds increase greatly when you interview highly competant people and actually listen to them.
I firmly believe most all golden age courses would greatly benefit by "looking old". Our only mandate to those we spoke with was to make the course look more 1920's than 1970's.
I was expecting a split among the membership on the stylistic issues (Tillie,CBM) but it would seem once they saw the work of Gil and George they have been highly supportive. What many we spoke with echoed was that Westchester really did not need another course with "Tillie bunkers like Winged Foot". Of course, that seems to be the big selling point in this area with many renovation guys.
The hole that Jeff remembers in the early 90's had been long changed from what Tillie left on his redo.
The project will be completed very soon, we are down to 1,17,18 with Gil on site as we speak.
It's a little funny but I choose to highlight this hole because it is often photographed, is of historical note (short), and frankly it was a hole that I considered the easiest decision for Gil to make on the course.
I do think we faced many unique challenges on our project, including two famous archtitects involved (+Rees), a completed master plan that was going to imbed WF/tilly bunkers into the fake Rees mounding, and a membership that did not appreciate the potential we had with our spectacular property.