I've always said that this design was a collaboration. Hopefully the recap below will prove it. Having checked with my attorney that the statute of limitations has expired, here is my scorecard of who was responsible for the design of which greens at Sebonack. Please note that it is not just divided between Jack and myself; a lot of people were involved in those greens. Mostly that was a good thing; once or twice, probably not!
I won't be surprised if other parties remember things slightly differently; everybody tends to remember their own role as being a little greater. However, I don't think I'm doing that for myself in the list below, since people tend to give me more credit for them than I do myself. What I'm trying to give credit for here is the basic design of green contours and the bunkers around the green.
Of course, it's important where you locate the green to begin with, and Jack and I were responsible for that part. And of course, Jack and I signed off personally on every one of the greens before it was considered "designed", though Jack didn't see the present 16th until it was finished, and I still haven't seen the new 14th.
#1 - Doak / Brian Slawnik - This was a green we had reshaped two or three times, and never got anything that anybody liked. On one of his latter visits, Jack complained that it was going to be a "zero" hole ... at which point I got ticked off and got on the machine myself to hammer out the basics of this green in all its severity. Brian Slawnik took it from there to make it playable. [The only other greens where I was on the equipment at all were #13 and #15.]
#2 - Brian Schneider / Doak - Brian's original version was extremely severe ... Nicklaus and I both took turns softening it. But the idea of putting a green back in the dunes with the big false front and the pocket in the back right, was part of my idea when routing the course.
#3 - The only one I don't really remember, because we had to build it while there was a huge pile of screened topsoil sitting 50 yards in front of the green ... you couldn't see the green from the fairway until it was ready to seed. I think Slawnik or Schneider shaped it, with a bit of instruction from me and possibly a sketch from Jack.
#4 - Urbina - One of the first greens we built, and one of the better ones. Haven't seen the recent expansion, which is Michael Pascucci's idea.
#5 - Nicklaus - Based on a green at Rhode Island CC which Jack liked. Built entirely to his sketch.
#6 - Urbina / Doak - I spent two minutes describing an idea to Jim; he shaped it himself the first day of construction, while waiting for someone else to get on site. Jack loved it and never changed a thing. It's still probably the best green there.
#7 - Nicklaus / Brian Slawnik
#8 - Doak / Nicklaus - No one ever really loved this hole except for Mr. Pascucci; he wanted a tough par-3 with water, and we had to put the irrigation pond here.
#9 - Urbina / Doak - Similar to #6. These two and the original 14th were the first greens we built, before Jack came out to look at what we were doing.
#10 - Jim Lipe / Urbina / Nicklaus / Doak - We were all involved in this one, over several versions. The original idea was Lipe's or Urbina's, can't remember which for sure. Jack had a lot to do with the shallowness of the back left segment. My only contribution was to remove a tier on the high right and just keep the slope down to the next tier as the start of the green.
#11 - Urbina / Doak - This green was in the middle of a softball field when we started construction; all the contouring is artificial. Softened by Nicklaus.
#12 - Nicklaus - Jack sketched out the contours of the green at the Postage Stamp hole when I mentioned it as a possible prototype. He also sketched the sharp knob to the left of the Postage Stamp green; Jim and I didn't built that part, because it would have hidden some cool sandy stuff to the back left.
#13 - Doak / Lipe / Nicklaus / Urbina - Similar to #10.
#14 - original green - Urbina - which I loved. Current green - Michael Pascucci, with help from Jerame Miller, who shapes for Jack.
#15 - Nicklaus
#16 - original green - Doak. Current green (70 yards further back) - Urbina, at Mr. Pascucci's request.
#17 - Nicklaus. Brian Schneider had a cool green built here, but Jack didn't like it at all.
#18 - Schneider / Doak. Based on 5th green at Muirfield.
#19 - Urbina / George Waters / Garret Bodington. It was Garret's idea to have a 19th hole and play to this green site, which Michael P. had always wanted to utilize as the site of the first green. [It was too long a walk to #2 tee, plus it brought the o.b. too much into play on the first hole, so we couldn't do that, although Michael is still trying to convince Mike Davis to use it as an alternate first green for the Women's Open.] I've always thought it was one of the coolest greens out there. I didn't do a thing to it, and Jack never really even looked at it, as far as I know.
Also note: There is a great set of green sketches by Jack's associate Chris Rule, hanging in the clubhouse. A lot of them are as-builts of the things we were building, rather than original designs. The only greens where I remember us looking at sketches to try and build something in particular were #5, #12, #15, and #17.