Hope you are well too!
My point is this: Here on this thread you’re decrying the very essence of fun and excitement that drove the dynamics of the original design. Yet on another thread at least the way I’m reading it—you don’t like or want change. Especially if it means a course shuts down for a year.
You say that #9 looks like it’s extracted from a dentist’s chair when that green was a wonderment of challenging pin positions that would test a great golfer. (It was originally the 18th green) The intricacies of shaping leading to and around that old 9th people I believe don’t really understand. Both Jones & MacKenzie were pretty adamant in their beliefs—it was a renegade club President, (Roberts) who changed them while aggravating Jones to the point that they no longer spoke, and as Dr. MacKenzie had passed.
Yet, on that other thread
https://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,70359.0.html you claim, and I quote:
I can't help but wonder if golf courses were meant to be enjoyed or renovated. While the current restoration(?) trend is yielding excellent results, at my age I can't imagine sacrificing even one year of play to turn a very good course into an even better(?) one. One can always hang another ornament on a beautiful Christmas tree. Does every wall need another brick?
Are money and ego driving the trend under the guise of stewardship?
Mike, Golf courses are living. Things change. Trees grow, bunkers become out of shape, literally move in some cases. New committees and green chairs with different ideals come in and influence. These once original whimsical designs become altered, many times without a direction of a Masterplan. Members behind those changes are very resistant to seeing what they changed under their watch, changed even if it’s for the better. Many of these changes are being driven to entice new members and in these COVID times, handle Golf’s popularity again.
So, my point is that you can’t have it both ways and when it comes to ANGC, driven by constant tinkering for one annual four day event, destroying the masterpiece of Bobby Jones & Dr. A. MacKenzie….