Found this quote from Ed Carton on the Spring Creek (Charlottesville, Va) web site...attributed to the thoughts of Sam Snead. What do you guys think about it.
The result of his collaboration with Sam Snead was the universally praised Poplar Grove, in Amherst.
"We spent time driving back and forth from the Masters, and I'd ask him, 'What do you think of these bunkers?' or 'What do you think of this green?' One of the things Sam liked was creating a green which he thought of as a catcher's mitt - where, if you hit the green, the ball doesn't just trickle off, but instead, you're rewarded with hitting the green. Another thing I took from him was a sense of shot values coming into the green - and, for example, how to make hazards very visible