Kelly,
Thanks for that info. I guess I need to start blogging on financial management and cross posting my thoughts here on my own blog. (Full disclosure - some of my thoughts here do make it in modified form into my column in Golf Industry Magazine every month)
Jeff Dawson,
I still wonder if Top 100 lists are truly the way to judge a gca? For instance, Fazio has dedicated his career to very aesthetic, very playable courses for wealthy, but presumably aging country club members, rather than being dedicated to designing only world class courses on spectacular sites.
Is there anything wrong with designing a course you could play every day the rest of your life rather than what for most (other than apparently you) is an occaisional memorable golf round miles and time zones from your personal residence?
It seems like some berate gca's for building courses too tough (i.e., top 100) on one hand, and then beat them up for not trying to build a top 100 course in someones back yard for enjoyable every day play.
Forgetting the top names, how would you rank a Floyd Farley who brought affordable golf to the midwest throughout his career? While gca nuts obviously appreciate the top guys more, wasn't that a fairly noble calling for Farley?