A couple of details to add on about that green at Tot Hill Farm. The hole plays 535 according to the card, but it plays on a fairly large dogleg/cape where you can cut off a fair amount, plus it plays downhill. So, if the hole is cut up front, you can go for the green in two and have an easy pitch from short of the green over the creek. If the hole is cut in back, then the proper play is to lay-up short of the creek and hit a good wedge into the back portion of the green. The green dictates the strategy of the hole. Sure, the green site is somewhat extreme, but whatever. Sometimes I like stuff that way. Its not out of character with the rest of the course.
Tom Doak-At the risk of being skinned like Matt Ward, it does happen on here that people will praise the features of a course by one designer and complain about those same type features at another course by a different designer. I detailed that in my Pine Valley thread. Like I said there, I can't give specific examples because those little tidbits were picked up from reading thousands of threads over the past three years on this site. As to whether or not someone would think less of a green built exactly the same on the same site by yourself and someone else, I can't say. But I have seen 'this' feature at a well regarded course said to be good, while 'that' feature at another course, which is essentially the same as 'this' feature on the well regarded course, is said to be bad. If you have never seen that in all your reading here, then I am not sure what to say.