Jeffery Brauer seemed to have a lot of insight into the lineage.
As for the course, the only crit I could come up with was a repetitive nature of a couple of the par 3's. Some may find the bunker stylings not to their liking, but all in all OCC is one of the great parkland courses I've seen. Fun and playable. The par 4 4th is one great hole.
I did do some work there years ago, and have interviewed for other work, including being the "other" finalist to Keith Foster, but one with much less Maxwell recreation experience.
That fourth hole was my interview waterloo years earlier when they interviewed Ben Crenshaw and myself for work that was never done. There was a huge cottonwood tree on the right front of the green, whose roots you could see in the putting surface, and which shaded the green entirely. However, it was a club members favorite, and before I went out on the tour, I was told that they would like to save that tree at all costs.
When I viewed the maintenance problems it caused, I knew it had to go, so when they asked if I could save the tree in the redesign I answered, "Sure, just tell me where to stack the logs."
They told me that the fifth green ( a steep par 3 green) was actually the very last green Maxwell saw when alive. No way to know if that is true, but its one of the very last, to be sure. As to similarities on the par 3 holes, the old 3rd was a reverse punchbowl green based on old aerial photos I saw. It was removed in the 60's as being too out of character, but I would have liked to seen the green and maybe rebuilt it.