Mike & Dave, et. al,
Read the passage below, then interpolate it in the context of the photos of # 10
It seems obvious that Wilson's "Alps" was saddly lacking in comparison to the 3rd at NGLA and the 17th at Prestwick, and that Wilson was advised to STUDY the 17th at Prestwick since he was laboring under the impression that he had built a good "Alps".
"The writer spent a pleasant hour last Wednesday afternoon with Hugh I. Wilson, wandering over the new Merion golf course, which he has spent so much of his time on. His main object is to make this the king-pin course of Pennsylvania. I am not yet prepared to talk about the possibilities of this new place because it is really just growing, and Fred Pickering, the coursemaker, will give it the finishing touches in the late fall.
It will then be time to reveal to the world its features, etc. Wilson has just returned from a trip abroad. He visited all the leading courses, gathering what data he could anent the making of good golf holes. I advised him, preparatory to his trip to Scotland, to watch carefully the seventeenth, or Alps hole, at Prestwick, which he really imagined existed on his new course. He is now convinced that it will take a lot of making to equal that famous old spot.
But many of the others, as laid out by Charles B. McDonald, are really great. Wilson became quite fond of Prestwick, Troon, Formby, Hoylake, Sandwich, Deal and Princes, but was sadly disappointed in St. Andrew, which, in reality, is a myth.