JC,
You should never listen to that idiot savant unless he's regaling you with stories of Fireball Roberts or the Dean's daughter.
My source is Seminole's official publication of their history, in their book, "The Story of Seminole"
It appears in Chapter 2, "A Place Like No Other" and in particular appears on page 37.
You can verify this as I mailed that book to you recently.
Page 37 states:
" At least two prominent golf course architects surveyed the land and came back to Hutton and his board with preliminary sketches that called for the properties dramatic 40-foot sandy ridge to be leveled and used to fill the site's low-lying swampy interior, several parts of which lay a foot or two below sea level. Unfortunately, their names fail to appear in the club's early and sparse record keeping, though, William Flynn is commonly believed to have been one of those under consideration.......
A third prominent expert, however, saw a way to preserve the sand ridge and use it to great strategic effect in his clever routing plan....."
The third person referenced, was Ross, who had written to E.F. Hutton requesting the commission.
What's interesting is the reference to the sketches, something Flynn was prone to do.
Perhaps the idiot savant and Wayno didn't do their research to the degree that they could positively exclude Flynn as being one of the three "experts" consulted with at Seminole
