Sorry if this has been been posted or referenced before but I've been away for a few days. You will note nothing was said about punchbowl or biarritz greens:
From the Hartford Courant:
If Designing A Course, What Features Would You Include?
June 25, 2006
Jesper Parnevik - "Not very long, traditional and challenging. The British Open courses haven't been touched in hundreds of years. And [they're] still a challenge. Smaller greens, a few par-4s that present a challenge."
Phil Mickelson - "Make sure the subtleties and nuances around the greens, especially in the chipping areas, are critical. I like what is at Winged Foot, where the greens go one way and the edges fall off and come back up, because it creates a whole different variety of shots and whole different challenge."
Carl Pettersson - "I would make it very similar to Hilton Head. Obviously you'd have to have the right piece of land. Fast fairways running into trouble, not much rough, the trees being the trouble. And small greens."
Retief Goosen - "Toughen it up, but not necessarily by lengthening it. I like an old-style course with trees, rough and sand traps."
J.B. Holmes - "Tree-lined for sure. If I was designing it for me, every hole would go left to right because that's how I like to hit my shots. I'd want a good ball-striking course with lots of undulations in it."
Patrick Sheehan - "Small greens, tight fairways and under 7,000 yards."
Olin Browne - "A short par-3 and short par-4, because people seemed to have neglected those particular kind of holes."
Billy Andrade - "Small greens because they're harder to hit and [they] bring the short game into play."
Brad Faxon - "Make it look natural, like it has been there. I'm a bigger fan of older-style courses."
Corey Pavin - "Grow rough, tighten the fairways. Have fairway bunkers ... to require more accuracy with your drives."
Joe Durant - "Trees that [are] integral to the design of the course and strategic bunkering. I know it's difficult when you have to go in and clear trees, but trees give you definition and force you to shape the ball around."
Brett Quigley - "A great practice facility and try to keep the course as firm as possible. You only need a few inches of rough if you have firm fairways and greens because the ball won't stay on them."
J.J. Henry - "A drivable par-4, like the 10th at Riviera or 15th at the TPC at River Highlands."
Paul Azinger - "I think the key is to have a nice, clean look. You want bunkers underneath the greens, bunkers staggered off the tee and some bends in the fairways and hills."
Kenny Perry - "You'd want a little Pebble Beach in there, a little bit of Muirfield Village [and] Riviera - scenic, with history. I don't think you can build a new golf course that will please everyone. Some guys will love it, some guys would hate it."
Joey Sindelar - "I prefer that 5 yards offline is a 5-yard penalty and 10 yards offline is a 10-yard penalty, and so on. I like consistency. There wouldn't be too much out of bounds and it wouldn't be water-laden. A slightly more vanilla version of Bethpage Black."