Isn’t the 13th at Augusta supposed to be “inspired by” the 10th at Alwoodley?
A 1934-5 photo of the green published in a booklet by ANGC contains a quote from MacKenzie about the 13th -
"This is played along the course of a brook with the final shot finishing to a green over the stream with a background of a hill slope covered with pine trees. The hole has some of the best golfing features of the Seventeenth Hole at Cypress Point, California, and the ideal hole depicted in C.B. Macdonald's book."
So self-inspired by his own work at Cypress Point (and by CBMacD)?
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I can't remember the diagrams in Macdonald's book, but I believe this is a reference to MacKenzie's own winning entry in the Country Life competition, that Macdonald used for the finishing hole at Lido. Macdonald had his own templates to follow, so he didn't sketch out many ideal holes.
But, someone sent me a copy the other day of Macdonald's write-up of Lido as it was being built, and in writing up the Short hole, he described it thus:
"The fourteenth is the short hole familiar to everyone who has played the sixth at the National and the seventeenth at Piping Rock. During the championship at Hoylake in 1906, at a meeting of the Rules of Golf Committee, Mr. Horace Hutchinson, Mr. John L. Low and myself discussed the best character for a short hole
and this particular hole was drawn out. The great feature of the hole is the undulations on the putting green. When the flag is in the horse-shoe in the middle of the green one should always play for a two. . . . It has been said that the short hole at the National was modelled after the short hole at Brancaster. It is true I mentioned the short hole at Brancaster at our meeting, but the criticism of that hole is that the green is higher than the tee, so that one cannot see where the flag goes into the hole. On all short holes the player should be able to see where the pin enters the hole."
I have always wondered where that horseshoe mound came from . . . apparently it came from a design charette with Hutchinson and Low!!