I agree with Pete's comments (although my memory isn't good enough to recall exactly which holes have fairway bunkers). The cool thing about the opening holes is how diverse they are. Short uphill two-shotter to a green on a ridge, downhill three-shotter to a green tucked into the trees, short hole over a pond that works right-to-left, two-shot hole with a left-to-right tee shot over water, the amazing fifth hole (with its amazingly pain in the butt green), wide open long two-shot sixth, then into the trees to the narrow seventh.
My favorite Par 3 is the eighth hole. Something about the shape of the hole (very gentle curve to the right with trees hard against the right side of the entire hole but plenty of open short grass to to left) and the backdrop of water behind the green is very pleasing. Even the houses in the line of sight between the green and the water don't completely spoil it. The hole is long enough and downhill enough to make precise placement of the tee shot challenging. The green is contoured enough and has sufficient elevation to the back and to the left side to make precise placement of the tee shot necessary. As Pete says, the one-shotters as a set are solid holes.
As a left-handed player who slices the ball, I think Cuscowilla's routing is biased in my favor. Most of the hole have some curvature to them, if not actual doglegs, and the majority of those favor moving the ball from right to left. Among the Par 4's and Par 5's:
1) Tee shot
2) Tee shot
5) Tee shot
6) Tee shot, second shot
7) Tee shot
12) Tee shot
13) Tee shot, second shot
14) Tee shot
17) Second shot
18) Tee shot
The Par 3's are pretty well balanced:
3) Right to left
Left to right
11) Left to right (at least with the prevailing breeze off the lake, which we didn't get)
16) Right to left
So it's my assumption that the holes that work well for a lefty slicer would be similarly suited to a right-hander who draws the ball. Keep in mind that as a high-handicapper I can't work the ball to accomodate the contours in the greens, which is an important and difficult matter at Cuscowilla.
I'll probably think of more things to mention later. For now the only other thing I can add is to mention a couple of favorite holes. As I said, #8 is pleasing to me in a way that has more to do with its shape and appearance than with its playing strategy (although it does challenge me to hit a draw with my 3-wood which is a fun challenge unless I hook it like I did on Sunday). So I'll give the nod to the eighth among the one-shot holes. I'll bet most people consider the sixteenth to be the weakest of the four but the green there makes par anything but a given and coming where it does in the round it is an ideal hole IMO.
My favorite back-to-back holes would be either the first and second or the seventeenth and eighteenth. I'll give the nod to the closing holes. If your match makes it as far as the final two hole, seventeen is just long enough to avoid being easy while being short enough that everyone can reach it. Placing the approach shot in a reasonable place on the green makes birdie a very sporting proposition but at least with the two pin placements we saw a three-putt is possible from most anywhere if you don't get line and speed pretty close to perfect. And eighteen is a definite half-shot hole. A closing hole with some movement and semi-blind shot(s) is much more ideal for the nervous final hole of a match than the cliche reachable Par 5 over water, IMHO. The green on that hole is more reasonable than most at Cuscowilla in terms of big slopes so you can't count on your opponent making a big mistake once you're both on the green. BTW, I like the eighteenth at Athens Country Club (which we played at the ninth) for similar reasons. It's not a really hard hole but it's blind enough and awkward enough to be a great hole if your nerves are on edge.
Finally, what's my favorite hole at Cuscowilla? Late in the afternoon, the seventeenth looks very sexy with its shadowed contours and the green sitting up there hiding in the shade and looking inaccessible. However, in a quirky choice I'll go with the thirteenth hole as the most fun to play. It's a dogleg left off the tee and then (for me) a long, long way downhill to the green. But it's flat and firm enough in front of the green to run the ball in even hitting a low shot under tree limbs (which most people seemed to need in the two fivesomes I played in this weekend). Then a flat easy green with more subtle breaks than the big, scary ones on the hole before and after.
The one hole I'm most looking forward to playing is #14. What a brute. It isn't the length (well, it is the length but that's not the worst part) but rather than the constant trouble with long brown grass, swampy hazards, fairway bunkers and blind shots troubling every layup option and every stroke. And for a lefty slicer when the wind is right to left and hurting (west wind) as it was on Sunday the shot up the hill toward the green is brutal. I made eight on Saturday and picked up rather than attempting my 12-footer for an eight on Sunday. What a bitch, I hate that hole. It's so patently unfair to a left-handed high-handicapper that I can't wait to try it again.