Post of Tim Liddy on March 12, 2010 on the “Re: Dick Wilson and Seminole” thread:
“Mr. Dye’s basic premise is the greens at Seminole have been top dressed so heavy and so often over the years their surface are not the original design any longer. The main person responsible for this top dressing (sometimes very heavy on Bermuda) over the early years was a maintenance tractor operator named Amos Jones. Mr. Dye feels he is more responsible for the design of the greens today than Donald Ross.
As a side note, when Mr. Dye is not happy with my work and we are with a client he will kid me and call me ‘Amos Jones”. I immediately know he is not happy with whatever feature we are discussing, while the client is unaware of his dissatisfaction.”
Post of Tim Liddy on March 13, 2012, same thread:
“JC,
The heavy topdressing was not applied evenly. Green surface lows became shallower (filled in) and the highs were reduced (tractor dragged topdressing off the highs). Over time the perimeter of the green shapes was also changed depending on how the tractor turned on and off the green (dragging the topdressing on and off the edges). This is evident if you look at old aerials of the original greens. Later, when bunkers were remodeled they matched revised green shapes, not original green shapes, which have compounded the changes over time.”