rpud/Rick Purdy said in his first post;
"Having lunch at my club today, the name of Ron Pritchard came up. One member mentioned that he ruined our bunkers with his re-design and also threw out Nassau CC as a place where he screwed up also. He maintained Nassau is replacing all the work done by Ron. I for one know of the disdain for this individual at my home club......"
After repeated requests from many of us to rpud/Purdy to supply some information which he failed to and/or refused to produce, Pat Mucci, our GCA investigator supreme, did a little checking and found out from a good source that Ron Prichard had not done any work at Nassau and asked Purdy to apologize to Prichard for criticizing him for something he never did;
And then rpud/Purdy replied,
"First off, there WILL BE NO APOLOGY for my initial commentary on Mr Prichard's work. I see that the attacks have continued........rpud and other slurs have been cast again. I guess whatever floats your boat guys.
Second, I STAND BY EVERYTHING I INITIALLY SAID. My contacts at Morris and Nassau are VERY unhappy about the work done by Mr Prichard.......this Cupp discovery at Nassua is news to me and several contacts at the club. I have seen copies of the work product with Mr Prichard.......Cupp did some minor work....he was in no way criticized by anyone known to me.”
Today, Gil Hanse, who read this thread called to say that it’s his understanding that it was Ron Forse who’d done bunker restoration work at Nassau and according to Ron Forse apparently some older members objected to it because it may have been a bit rugged, natural etc and perceived by them as too hard to play from. Basically, Gil said it was the kind of bunkering you and I love but there are always some members, particularly some older ones at some clubs who object to it---that’s just sort of the nature of the business and that this is not uncommon in most any restoration work just as Brad Klein explained to rpud/Purdy on the first page.
Then Ron Prichard called to say he never has worked at Nassau G.C. But, again, rpud/Purdy has stated; “My contacts at Morris and Nassau are VERY unhappy about the work done by Mr Prichard.......this Cupp discovery at Nassua is news to me and several contacts at the club. I have seen copies of the work product with Mr Prichard.......Cupp did some minor work...”
So rpud/Purdy says he’s seen copies of Prichard’s work product at Nassau. Really rpud/Purdy? Well Ron Prichard says he never worked there which means in my book you can’t even understand the difference between the name Ron Forse and Ron Prichard or if you can and did, well then, you’re just a liar who goes on an Internet site and maligns an architect for something he never did. And if you don’t think you owe Ron Prichard an apology after that, then you’ve got zero character in my book. You know you’re wrong, you won’t admit it, you won’t apologize, meaning you’re a spineless little worm and better yet you know that!
So far on this thread, this character rpud/Purdy has insulted just about all of us for asking him for some facts about the bunkers at Morris Co, and when he refused to supply any details and we questioned him on that he insulted all of us;
He insulted Brad Klein, called me an asshole, denigrated my golf club, and once again said in caps, firstly he would NOT consider apologizing to anyone about anything he said and secondly he stands by everything he said about Ron Prichard at Morris Co and Nassau.
As much as we want to be civil and decent on here, I suggest in rpud/Purdy’s case we make him the Golfclubatlas poster boy for everything that can go wrong at some good classic golf courses. People like that are good architecture’s and good architect’s biggest problem. They don’t understand good architecture in the slightest and gratuitously insult those who build it.
Matter of fact, just to show you all what a bunch of decent guys Ron Prichard, Ron Forse and Gil Hanse are, Ron Prichard realized that Gil had worked at Morris Co a bit before him and when he was called by the club he put in a call to Gil first. And Ron Forse, he interviewed for our club but the job went to Gil Hanse but the two of them are great friends although obviously competitors in the business, they’re likely to compete for projects all the time, all three of them, for that matter and they all remain friends, completely decent to each other, supportive of each other and gentlemanly about things. And all three of them are terrific architects certainly understand the realities of the business and that in all projects there are likely to be occasional members like those guys eating at the next table to rpud/Rick Purdy and Purdy himself. The very thing Brad Klein said to Purdy and got insulted for. These fellows are good architects and good guys.
The very thing, in fact, that rpud/Rick Purdy isn’t! So don’t bother about any of our requests from you for facts and details, rpud/Rick Purdy because basically you’ve proven on this thread that you don’t know crap about any of this and obviously never will. But you should apologize to a bunch of people. And if you don’t it’ll be continuing evidence of the kind of person you've thus far shown yourself to be--clueless and spineless. And finally, good luck avoiding Ron Prichard's bunkers at Morris Co.; you're probably one of those people who has no idea how to stay out of them or get out of them.