It seems on point to me to quote the beginning of Ran Morrissett's writeup on Seminole where he quotes the good doctor: " 'A good golf course . . . is not necessarily a course which appeals the first time one plays it, but one which grows on the player the more frequently he visits it,' proclaimed Alister MacKenzie." And then: "Bob Jones once said of St. Andrews, ' The more I studied the Old Course, the more I loved it; and the more I loved it the more I studied it.' The same could be said for David Eger, the 1988 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion, and Seminole. Eger first played Seminole in the late 1970s and thought the course to be just fair, but his dozens of subsequent rounds have him now convinced of the course's greatness."
So can't our unnamed young pro be granted a little slack? He's not the first to be unimpressed with an acknowledged classic, nor the only person whose opinion is out of step with mainstream thinking.
God forbid !