Ed (and others): I'm not especially encouraging you to return, and I'm not trying to make the course out to be more than it is. (Jonathan started that part of the conversation.)
I was just pointing out that, just because it might not be of particular interest to GCA.com, nor a candidate for a list of the great courses of the world, does not mean it is an "unworthy" course. It's a good golf course, and it seems to have been reasonably successful in attracting a customer base, which is all the client really wanted from it.
It bothers me that many people on this site are only interested in list-making, and some seem to believe that EVERY course should strive to make those lists or the architect and developer are both at fault.
In the real world, it's more the opposite. While we all try our best to make every project cool, there are only a few which have the property that building one of the best courses in the world is a legitimate possibility. I've been lucky to work on a few such properties, but that doesn't mean everything else we've done is a waste of time and effort.
Of course, there is always the occasional Miracle from God, where everything comes together on a more ordinary piece of property to produce Oakmont or Pinehurst No. 2. But those are 1-in-1,000 shots, and the odds of doing the same thing at Charlotte Golf Links -- without a client who had that goal -- would have been considerably higher. The guys who think we should have moved heaven and earth to try, are just off in their own reality.