Midland Hills certainly satisfied my criteria. Mike’s discovery further confirmed to me that the intent of a Seth Raynor design was laid out on this property. One of the greens Urbina feels is unique to this property is on the course’s Eden hole. “The Strath bunker is drawn in the perfect location, with a green that was drawn perpendicular to the line of flight,” he says. “In many of the Eden renditions that have been built, the Strath bunker is shoved off to the side of the green and not in the location as this drawing depicts. This leads me to believe that Raynor was drawing the hole right from construction, while most golf courses were shying away from putting the bunker where it belonged and building greens that were not linear to the line of flight as depicted in this drawing.”
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The drawing proves, in Urbina’s opinion, that Raynor knew where he