Tom,
Thank you for clearing that up for us. The wool was getting itchy on my eyes! What has always thrown me off is the modern map, which was drawn in a style similar to Mackenzie. Was the artist of that map unaware whose routing they were drawing or did they draw it in Mackenzie style to change the narrative?
It makes me wonder if the club really knew whose routing map they had. It may have never been lost, but it does appear to be rediscovered.
Seth Raynor made at least 7 trips to California. He was hired by Del Monte Properties to design 5 courses. 3 of theses courses never got started, the greens at MPCC Dunes were changed immediately by Egan, Mackenzie and Hunter after Raynor died and then Mackenzie and Hunter took over his routing at Cypress Point made some changes and then created a Mackenzie/Hunter masterpiece. For all those trips and all that work, Seth Raynor has nothing to show of his work in California. Saying he made a routing of Cypress Point at the request of Marion Hollins is not really overstating his contribution.
I would speculate that his greatest contribution was getting the Del Monte Properties Company to move 17-Mile Drive, which allowed Cypress Point to be routed the way it is played today. Do you think you could get the Del Monte Properties Company to move that road today? Del Monte Properties Company had great foresight and I think that is what makes Monterey so successful today.
Bret