Great courses are a labor of love, and greatness is unlikely if the designer and owner play only the inaugural round together and never see one another again. Cleve Trimble
So true, and this relates directly to the previous post. Actually everything posted up to today.The best golf courses (the best anything) are a "labor of love", not a hit-and-run operation where the architect is a foreigner to the property and workers.
There are post construction details that need be nailed down, and just as excellence requires an architect leading construction, an investment of time after construction is completed is also required to ensure the course is maturing as the architect intended.
At times the architect may be required to visit the course years... decades after the course has opened. To educate a new superintendent and/or review the maturity of the course... because golf courses are growing, and change slightly with every pass of a mower. After years, slight change pile upon slight change can change the architecture.
All this takes time... the most valuable asset we possess. The most valuable asset a golf course architect can bring to his work... as nothing great on this planet is done in a flash.
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