I recall Uncle George telling me in 1998 that Raynor had registered his routing plan for Sequoyah in the Southampton surveyors office. I've got a few friends who are members and was invited over by a Brit named Cauthen Hinshaw who I recall served as Club Historian.
Sequoyah has an impressive history with Hogan and Snead in the Oakland Open, but I was unable to find much in the way of architectural history beyond a proposed remodel - with drawings - done by Chandler Egan sometime in the 1930's.
The archives they do have were stuffed away in the Clubhouse Boardroom and I was about ready to declare a non-decision when a loud conversation in the hallway prompted me to close the enormous wooden door at the entrance to the room.
"What the heck is that?" I asked, looking at a large, framed routing plan on the wall behind the door.
Nobody had ever noticed it before, which seems impossible. I took it off the wall and gave it a close look. There was a Channel Hole, a Short and an obvious Biarritz amongst other things, but only portions of the course had been originally constructed on that routing and aside from records dating to the 30's, nobody was sure of much else.
I'm doing this out of memory, but I recall the railroad built the original course around 1910 or so and from what I could surmise - but it is only a guess - Raynor either stopped by on his way to Hawaii (Mid-Pacific) or when he came out to Olympic in 1917 and drew up his suggested modifications. What I thought must surely be the "Short" out on the course today was built in the 1950's(?) - so I was el wrongo on that one.
My sense is that they made some of Raynor's changes but not all of them. The Biarritz is obvious, all the way down to the geometric swales that were obviously bunkers where some numbskull planted a line of trees. Beyond that, my sincere advice to them was to build the Egan plan as it provides the rare opportunity for a club to construct a "new" Golden Age course - in effect, resurrecting Egan's genius from the grave.
I've played very little golf the last eight years, but last I heard, my friend Doug Nickels had done just that - with some modifications for the modern game. I'm ashamed to say I've not been back, but if the work came out like his effort at Burlingame Country Club (I live around the corner), I'm sure Egan would approve.