Kalen, Kalen, Kalen.
Methinks you need to make the pilgrimage and play the golf course. If you can state these same things AFTER doing so, then I will bow and simply place you over there with Mucci and the other soul-less golfers.
And I hate to use this card - it sucks big time - but you just can't understand this course until you play it. Sorry man, that's just how it is.
Because it is SOOOOOO much more than what you just said....
But oh well, since I don't want to give up on you, how's this:
There is a certain strategy involved for sure, because you have to try and ascertain how far the tee shot will roll out, and how far of a 2nd you want to leave in. And given that the smart golfer plays somewhere out to the left, this isn't all that easy to figure... then there is also the temptation to shorten the hole by going straight at it, which brings OB right into play. Then since it is damn near always windy, there's stategy involved in the 2nd as well... do you play for back of the green? Try to attack a front pin? Heck, bounce it over the burn (which is done all the time and is lots of times the best play)?
That kind of thing does not happen at the local muni, my friend.
And by the way, the green is anything but nondescript.
Of course you'd know all of this if you played it. If you had, you'd also understand how patently silly the comparison to Doral is.
Old Tom Morris and his son Tommy never played Doral.