The question I would ask is what are the qualities of a golf course that make it great for him?
I don't know this gentleman, but I see and hear a lot of quotes from Tour pros and things they say about courses they like are are pretty revealing, IMHO.
"It's all there in front of you," is one favorite, which tells me theat many of them don't like having to figure out where to put their ball.
The other one that comes up all the time is, "It's hard, but fair." Of course they like hard golf courses, they separate good ball strikers from bad ball strikers. And fairness generally implies some kind of proportional punishment based on how well a shot is struck.
And "good shot" is generally defined by whether or not it lands where the player intended.
So when he's 100 yards out, hitting L wedge to a hard, fast green that slopes away, it's the golf course's fault that it ended up in over the green. A "fair" test wouldn't have punished him for hitting a "perfect" shot.
The same applies to a ball that lands in the fairway and bounces off a mogul into the rough.
It's why many of them hate centerline bunkers. I have friends who say, "It's just not fair to put trouble in the middle of the fairway. Of course, they're the same yahoos who think they shouldn't have a bad lie in the fairway, either.
It's like the thread here on appreciation for quirk in courses.
Ken