"Something about too many cooks in the kitchen comes to mind."

Steve Elling with excerpts of Nick Faldo's letter to the International Golf Federation pitching a mass collaboration of some of the biggest do-nothings on the planet: player-architects.

Though short on specifics as to how this boondoggle would work (since many of these people couldn't find one of their projects with a GPS device), it sounds as if Sir Nick is suggesting the Olympic course design consist of a collaboration of many appearance fee specialists.

"What a tremendous, ongoing, global and historic story we could write for our sport as a truly international team of men's and women's champions create the venue for golf's return to the Olympics in 2016. Certainly some of the most-respected course designers in the world come from a global pool of the most-recognized champions.

"It is understood that the complexity of the site and the demands of the Olympic event would necessitate a unified and experienced process architecturally; as they say, egos should be checked at the door, but please imagine the worldwide interest and appeal this Olympic course as the truest collaboration of men's and women's champions -- from every continent.

As long as we can see a reality show out of it, I'm in!

"Consider for yourself, the major-champion designers from the continents of Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, South America and Asia.

Oh let's not.

The announcement of this collaboration alone would generate true and positive worldwide interest and press in a truly Olympic story."

Until you actually all try to coordinate your site visits, assuming some of the lugs (Faldo not included) even know what a site visit entails!