NO Mike. This isn't a refutation of my theory. It is your refutation of your own red herring. My theory is that they had the entire area marked by the small yellow line. The purple area is yours and nothing to do with anything relevant.
You obviously don't understand my theory and I'd appreciate if you would quit misrepresenting it. Thanks.
David,
Now it's you who isn't taking Richard Francis at his word!
Francis said the area west of Golf House Road was not "part of ANY golf layout" they were considering.
No, Mike, that is not what he said. You are combining two different fragments from different paragraphs to get the meaning you want, but that is not what he said. He said:
We had some property west of the present course which did not fit in at all with any golf layout, perhaps we could swap for some we could use? . . . SOME PROPERTY west of the present course which did not fit in at all with any golf layout . . . He doesn't say how much, he doesnt say the exact cut off, he doesnt say which lay out(s) he had in mind when he was making the comparison. He certainly doesnt say every single square inch of property to the west of what became Golf House Road was never ever even considered!
Golf House road didn't exist yet! We don't know the exact shape of what "lay out" they were considering at the time. All we know is that whatever they were considering, they were not planning on going all the way to the Western border of the Johnson farm. That is it.
Yet you claim that the EVENTUAL location of the road was some magic border and there was no way they ever even seriously considered going even a few yards to the west of it? There is no basis for this conclusion.
Presumably, your mistaken assumption is based in part on the next paragraph, where Francis wrote:
. . . The land now covered by fine homes along Golf House Road was exchanged for land about 130 yards wide by 190 yards long - the present location of the 15th green and the 16th tee.But this describes the dimensions of the FINAL PRODUCT, which was not even tentatively set until they agreed to the purchase, and this was AFTER THEY HAD DECIDED TO GO UP INTO THE CORNER. The final boundary may not have been set until much later.
And when the road was set, it was NARROWLY TAILORED to fit the plan, and the plan included THE LAND UP IN THE CORNER. You cannot simply apply the same border all the way back through time to where Francis and Lloyd were trying to figure out whether they could get the course they wanted to fit on THE ENTIRE AREA OFFERED. It makes no sense.
Do you understand this? Do you see how the final location of the road does not tell us what Francis/Lloydd/MCC/M&W/HHB may have been considering in the summer of 1910? I don't think it is that complicated, and I have explained it before, but you keep getting MY THEORY wrong.
You don't have to agree with me Mike, but you cannot just change my theory to suit yourself.