Joe,
No shame at all. The world needs more public courses. It probably needs more courses close to housing, rather than a drive out in the country (eco friendly and gas prices, etc)
The type of course it probably needs least is top end, hard to get to, yet utterly spectacular golf courses that the top gca's compete for.
As I typed a few weeks ago in my thread about my mentor Ken Killian - He told me you do more for the world of golf by remodeling one green and making it good at a modest course that can't afford more than you do building a TPC course. And, he said that there are no bad design projects until you design them badly.
JC,
I stilll think what your are mixing up is design you don't particularly like with design goals that don't let the gca build the next great one. Although, as the WW shows, there is no reason you can't design two equal, but vastly differently styled courses across the street from each other and make them both good.
Mike Young,
No, I haven't sewn up any entire countries yet. That is reminiscent of JN signing agreements early on to only do one course in Texas, or at least only one per metro area. He got out of that one early on, realizing it was too limiting. I really have about 0.00000001% of the marketing stroke of JN and a few others.