Just for the record, since I have been "quoted" twice on it in the past week, I do NOT remember ever saying that "America has twelve top ten courses" or anything like that.
I may have said that it's silly to think that there are exactly ten, so it's silly to make people vote for exactly ten. If there are exactly ten, and I build an eleventh, does that mean one of the others is now not worthy, even though it hasn't been changed at all.
All that said, I agree with Mr. Huckaby that saying you can't possibly compare Shinnecock and Oakmont, because they're so different, is a bunch of baloney. If you really believe that, you shouldn't rate or rank courses at all, because St. Andrews and Pine Valley and Augusta and Crystal Downs and Painswick and North Berwick and The Rawls Course are all completely different, too -- but we can somehow decide that doesn't make them all equal.
However, where I am starting to disagree with Mr. Huckaby, after many years of involvement in rankings, is that there is any POINT to ranking courses so exactly. We can compare Shinnecock to Oakmont, and perhaps agree that Shinnecock wins, as individuals ... but if everyone puts both courses on the top rung, then there is not going to be any meaningful consensus about which should rank higher ... we're just splitting hairs based on personal biases.