All I said was: Why not?
Tom IV --
I know you're just griefin' me -- but I'll answer you, anyway: If I thought these "replica" courses were taking one penny away from the courses being "replicated" or the designers of those courses, I would oppose them with my usual strident implacability. If I thought there was one person on Earth who, given the choice between playing the Road Hole and some "replica" of the Road Hole, would choose the "replica," I'd oppose the "replica" courses with my usual strident implacability.
But I don't think either of those things. I think (subject to being corrected, by someone who knows better) that these courses are harmless novelties, and that those who play them probably have some fun doing so -- as much fun as they might have from your typical new course catering to the kinds of people who'll never have the opportunity to see the real Road Hole or to play a shot over or into the real Rae's Creek (or even over or into the real Cypress Hedge!).
JakaB --
In re: "Why do people want life to be so damn easy...take a pill for a hard-on or play a classic hole out of context of history and exclusitivity. Buy a happy meal and use the Hamburgler as an ass plug...or work hard and earn your happiness.....its becoming a happy world my friend and I don't seem to be in a hurry to jump aboard."
Nor am I, sir! Nor am I.
The only one of those things I've done (not that I wouldn't do others of them, if I had no better option!) is to work hard to earn my happiness.
But neither am I in a hurry to condemn those with ideas different from mine. I've never played a "replica" course, and if I had the money to build a golf course, I certainly wouldn't build a "replica" course -- but I'm just not seeing how anyone is being harmed if people play classic holes "out of context of history and exclusitivity." That's not how you want to play them, and that's not how I want to play them -- but if some other clown wants to play them that way, it's no skin off my nose (or true golf's, either, in my view).
Look at it this way: Every clown who's over at the "replica" course isn't clogging the way ahead of you!