Any cookbook approach is powerless to cope with independent will, or with the unfolding situations of the real world. Straight from the Gut, Jack Welch
Plans are cook books. Paint-by-numbers kits. You can get a golf course produced from handing plans to builders and having the architect show up infrequently... every week, month or quarter, but this is the proven path to mediocrity.The cook-book-and-abandonment method is the "typical" manner of building golf courses, but is it best? No. History has proven why for a century.
Independent will... the life experiences of each individual building the course, the pet styles they develop, the value they attach to their experiences can submarine the most novel concept when the workers are left alone for long periods. Simply because the vision documented in the cookbook is locked into the architect's brain. It can and never will be fully explained in 2-Dimensional drawings.
Those "unfolding situations of the real world" happen frequently during the construction process. The canvas is large, their are numerous individuals involved with their own perspectives, and Mother nature often throws a curveball.
Adjustments need be made, communication of the vision constantly delivered and reinforced. This can't be done through a "cookbook" and part-time involvement. Not if you seek excellence for the millions you invest.
Tony Ristola
agolfarchitect.com
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