"Is a golf architect's persanal backgroung and lifesytle fair game?"
I don't see why not, particularly ones who are now in the realm of history and whose lives seemed to diverge from the run-of-the-mill, like Leeds, Crump, Wilson, Macdonald, Thomas, Mackenzie, Tillinghast, Behr, Crane, Simpson, Hunter, Muirhead, Dick Wilson et al.
It sure has occured to me that golf course architecture has had more than a usual collection of "characters", probably "oddballs" and certainly more than a normal amount of "tragic" figures.
People who spend time or their lives in some form of ART are probably more prone to these kinds of things than most and honestly they fascinated me----their idiosyncracies, odd personalities and sometimes ultra strong wills and opinions.
By the way, to clear the record for about the fifth time, I have no idea if Devereaux Emmet was gay. Mentioning that and his gay architecture was just an on-going joke that some over-wrought critics like Moriarty took huge umbrage at. The only reason I ever said that about Emmet was because of that hilarious photo of him known as the "cat in the hat". In his white suit and hat he looked like a spitting image of some former day Tom Wolffe!
Herbert Leeds was a well-known confirmed bachelor, and he was also well known for being an utra mysogynist. Back when I was growing up it seems most thought homosexuals generally hated women, didn't want anything to do with them or to even be around them (my how times have changed!
). With Herbert Leeds' this was reportedly the case.
Was Leeds a homosexual? Probably but I've never heard anyone state that as a fact. It seems like those who revere him for his architecture or whatever would just as soon avoid the subject altogether.
I welcome you trying to figure out what made Leeds tick, MacWood. Matter of fact from the way I've seen you deduce things in the past it should be pretty interesting and probably pretty funny to see what strange tangent you'll launch off on and then claimed you proved.
Unfortunately, before you launch off on Herbert Leeds I really think you should back up your claim that Willie Campbell designed the first nine holes of Myopia. Something tells me this thread is just another one of your diversions to avoid backing up what you claimed about Campbell and Myopia, and probably because you know you can't.
"Is a golf architect's persanal backgroung and lifesytle fair game?"
Tom MacWood, you know you really are a terrible writer and an even worse speller. You misspell words constantly in your posts but that misspelling above sort of fascinates me. Do you think there's something vaguely Freudian in your spelling of personal as pers-anal in this particular thread?