Tom,
I am curious as to why you feel you could not to build a similar putting surface to this. It is my favorite green in Scotland and I cannot grasp why this would not be possible to recreate (not exactly of course, but in the spirit of) on the Old Macdonald Course.
There are other, more subtle examples of similarly wild contouring like this that have struck my eye in the past - specifically #3 at Cruden Bay and #2 at St. Andrews - so on a reduced scale it would seem not only possible with the raw product in Bandon, but extremely desirable.
If you managed to wade through a "collaboration" (yeah, right) with Nicklaus and still come up with something fantastic in the toughest neighborhood east of Pebble Beach, one can only imagine what you, George and Urbina can conjure up.
This response probably belongs on the "Best Green" thread - and thank you to SBerry for bringing it to my attention - but there are a couple of greens at Hotchkiss (that George contoured) where the Redhead and I spent 30 minutes at dusk just trying to decipher with pictures and practice putts.
As to Sea Headrig . . . . the hole gets a lot tougher when you yank a tee shot into Willie Campbell's bunker . . . . . and then do it again off the 16th tee.
2 under par standing on the 13th tee . . . . . to a smooth 80, crawling bloody and traumatized off the 18th with my tail shoved in my posterior.