Hi Garland, after looking at your design a second time I found many similarities in our routing (my design is #007). Our first 7 holes cover nearly the exact same terrain, and your 8-12 loop follows a similar route as my 13-18. I like your hole #10 better than my par-3; I stuck my green way out on the "peninsula." My only question is, would the hole be blind from your tee placement?
I don't believe #10 would be blind. As you perhaps notice the tees are set back farther and farther to the right as you go back. This keeps them relatively on top of the hill as opposed to going over the ridge at the left which would make the back tees blind. As you know, the holes and greens were draped directly on the terrain without modification to the terrain. If there was a visibility issue, I am sure it could be corrected with a minimum of earth moving.
As for the routing, it seemed natural to use the boundaries of the property since we are not professionals that can spend months on a routing. I actually think that in at least one way it gave us a better routing than the actual course, because it forced us to make direction changes other than 180 degrees. I was really surprised to see the back and forth nature of the actual course as I noted on the common thread.
Thanks for reading my thread.