Mike,
Thanks for the reply, I thought you were gauging a trend.
It is interesting that when Ron did the article golf was in the boom cycle. My guess is that Jeff, Craig, John and others were busy trying to get to every project, ah the good old days. Each one selling a style that people were gravitating to. Today, that same consumer has aged along with the people who provided that architectural need. We now have two segments of the design era still working, sometimes barely, 70 'and 80's theme and the 90's and early 2000 genre. Will always have the Golden Age of design, that is why it is so important to retain and restore as many of the greats as possible. Will still have new course being built and that's a good thing after all it is part of the cycle of golf.
Will see where golf design takes us. In the not too distant future how does one ball, one club and a group of friends with no par sound to you?