Honestly, Tom I think it is hard to explain. For your game, I think it would be as fun as any. You hit it straight, and long enough that will will have very few long irons into any pars 4's. (The other part that isn't depicted in pictures is how great the greens are. They are just incredible, and add tremendous fun to the round.
I will give you an example of why it can be hard fun. Number 7 is a reachable par 5 that was playing very downwind when we were there. Three of the 4 of us were low handicap golfers, and basically hit good drives each round, where we were hitting 7 iron to sand wedge for our second. There is a narrowish gap that fronts the green, with bunkers left and right, surrounded by the gunsch to the outside. Each shot, you could see the player look and try to figure out.
1) Do I fly it all the way there to the wider part of the green and bring the guncsh into play if I am left or right.
2) Do I try to bounce it in short, and roll it on (but bring the bunkers in play)
One of the group said "I can't believe that I have wedge into a par 5 and I can't figure out how to play it and I am scared to death to pull the trigger on the shot. Every day."
There are some breather holes for a decent player. 3, 6, 7 and 14 and ones which you feel like you should have a consistent chance at birdie every round. Holes 1, 3, 6, 11,14 are par 4's with VERY generous landing areas. The pars 3's are shortish irons for 3 and 1 mid iron.
There are just no holes where it doesn't matter where you hit it. You hit into Simperville and the ball is gone. So you have to be dialed in on every shot. And when you are not, and you hit a really loose one, you pay.
A high handicapper could lose just about many golf balls at Pacific Dunes, especially a slicer. At Pacific, a big slice means a probable lost ball on 1,2,4,6,7,8,10,14,15,16, and 18. I only use Pacific because I know you find it great fun. But you can have just as miserable a day at Pacific during a round as you can at Prairie Dunes.
PS. Rumors of my travelledness, and certainly astuteness and knowledge are vastly exaggerated.
PPS. I do think that Ballyneal is more fun than Prairie Dunes. If Prairie Dunes had native vegitation similar to Ballyneal where you could find stray shots and play them , I would think it would be more fun.