One's ideal's don't always match one's real life experiences. I've had a funny old last couple of years in the courses that I've experienced for the first time. Would never have expected to become an RTJ fan, but it seems to be happening, and I wouldn't have expected to enjoy Fazio's reworking at Sea Island, but I did. Huge bunkers, and not many of them, most all of them with tightly cropped borders. I thought that the consistency created a feeling of a grand scale and I was not averse to this. And certainly, however good one's lie, there are no gimme up and downs from 25 yards and more.
Let's not get into how they have completely ruined the vibe of the place in every other way..
I almost added my thoughts to the Wolf Run thread that I saw yesterday, but my thoughts seemed to be well enough represented. It is a fabulous course. One of the toughest I've ever played, and yet still fun. My only disappointment was the look of the bunkering. Lots of clusters of little ones. Overly busy, to my eye.