Reading through "Pine Valley--A Unique Haven of the Game"...
I found this about Crump and Colt's relationship.
"How well Crump and Colt got along is purely a matter for conjecture, though they may not have been the proverbial peas in a pod. It is probable hat they were never on a first-name basis."
"He (Colt) spent a full week examining the ground thoroughly and then submitted plans for an eighteen-hole golf course which, in his opinion, would be the equal of any inland course in the world"
"Colt remained at Pine Valley for no more than two weeks, doubtless working, at least some of that time, in a collaborative mode with Crump, counseling him in theory and in specific detail. Understandably, then, the question persists as to what extent Pine Valley is a reflection of the great English designer's input, especially in view of the fact that some newspaper accounts of the time incline to minimize Colt's role. "
"There can be little question about how Colt himself viewed his role in the project. In a piece on Sunningdale that he wrote for the October 1914 issues of Golfer's Magazine (a British publication), he commented, "The only course in America that I have seen which resembles it [Sunningdale] in any way is the new course at Pine Valley, near Philadelphia, which I had the honor to lay out last year..."
"But Crump himself had looked closely at Sunningdale on his visit to England with Baker in 1910. And the Pine Valley terrain, to begin with, was not unlike that of the great suburban London course..."
In between these items I quote, the books talks about the Crump routing and the Colt routing ideas. But then says,
"There is no Colt routing plan. The holes are basically where George Crump place them in the plan he drew up about two months before Colt arrived."
Wasn't there pretty intense discussion on here regarding these routings? In fact, I think I have a copy of these plans.
PS...still trying to find that passage on the guy who made a 40 on one of the holes.
EDIT...this was sent to me in regards to the above routing discussion.
I'll try to explain this as simply as possible. What is quoted above from Mr. Finegan's "Pine Valley---A Unique Haven of the Game," is a mistaken assumption he made that the date (March, 1913) on the map he referred to was the date the routing on that map was finished. That map would actually initially be used by both Colt and Crump together during Colt's visit in the end of May, beginning of June 1913, and would be used by Crump to make design changes on until near the end of his life (Jan. 1918). It is the map commonly referred to as the "Blue/Red Line Topo." It has hung in the clubhouse for years. The date on that map (March, 1913) is actually the surveyor's date before the map was given to George A. Crump.
There is another map that we believe is a topo duplicate of the map mentioned above that Crump worked on himself before Colt first arrived in the end of May, beginning of June, 1913.
There is a third map of the course with a legend on it that says "Scheme for the Pine Valley Golf Course as Suggested by H.S. Colt." This map has a date of July, 1913 on it. Since H.S. Colt left the USA on June 9, 1913, we believe this map was made by the same surveyor mentioned above from hole by hole drawings in a notebook that Colt left with the club. That map had not been seen for many years and turned up on Ebay about 6-7 years ago. A group of us bought it and turned it over to Pine Valley.