I found it interesting that the courses chosen by the finalists could very well have been those chosen by the first five to answer here given the high regard those five courses are held in here.
Preferring a rural setting, the Bandon Resort would most likely be where I would choose to hangout out for the rest of my golfing life. At one point I was trying to get my wife to agree to buy a place in Florence for all of the features one finds there, the lakes, the forests, the sand dunes, the beach, and at the time the anticipation of the coming Bandon Resort not too far away.