Tom Doak,
Let's set the record straight
Tom Poole, the former green chairman at GCGC directed you to provide a rendering to restore the 12th hole, after I convinced the entire committee, including Board members and the Chairman, also a Board Member that the hole should be restored.
We both attended the meeting where the Green Chairman directed you to provide a restoration rendering.
You then provided a rendering effectively restoring the hole.
Subsequently, you resubmitted a revised rendering of an iteration you had previously submitted and effectively undermined and killed the project.
Not long after that series of incidents I became pre-occupied with fighting for my life in a battle with very serious cancer,
thus what happened at # 12, Garden City GC and every other golf course in the world became of little concern to me.
I resigned all of my Board and Committee positions at every organization I was involved with and distanced myself from every and all projects not related to my medical condition so that I could focus on my battle with cancer.
Subsequent to that, the only discussion I had with you about GCGC was the two phone conversations we had when I was trying to convince you to design Sebonack and accept the fact that it would be known as a Jack Nicklaus & Tom Doak design.
I informed you, that if you got the job that the only consideration I asked in return was that you stop by GCGC when you landed at LaGuardia or JFK on your way to Sebonack, so that you would restore the 12th hole.
Extensive chemotherapy may have affected my equilibrium, but not my memory.
I have chosen NOT to get reinvolved at GCGC, but, if I'm ever inclined to do so, you'll be amongst the first to know.