I have only read this board until today and I understand that you are the board's resident guru, but it really is tiring to read your constant self proclaimed superiority over almost anything other architects do. You apparently are a fine architect but you don't need to constantly step on others to build yourself up. Stop with the self absorption already.
What a crock.
Why don't you come out of your hole and tell us your name, plustwos? You might -- like Tom Doak -- earn some respect here, if you did.
(Before we proceed: Tom Doak is not my "guru." I've never met the man. I've never played one of his courses. I have read "Anatomy of a Golf Course," but not the Confidential Guide. Otherwise, I know of him ONLY through his posts here -- which, like those of a number of other contributors [some of them architects, some of them not], I have found consistently cogent and educational.)
Riddle me these, plustwos:
-- Do you think Tom Doak is "stepping on" Pete (and/or Alice) Dye with his comment about TPC 17?
-- Where is the evidence of Tom Doak's "constant self proclaimed superiority over almost anything other architects do" and "self absorption"? A man beset by the vanity you ascribe to Tom Doak would give all of his own courses a 10, and would give a 10 to no one else's. Neither of those things is true.
-- How is Tom Doak to answer the question posed by this thread without "stepping on others"? (Oh, I suppose he could say: "None of my holes should be copied, because they're all such brilliant originals that no one can even understand their genius, let alone replicate it." THERE'S self-proclaimed superiority, plustwos.)
Keep telling it as you see it, Tom Doak.