Great topic. I think a golf course must have some measure of internal consistency in order to be considered to be a good or great work. Last summer, I played Conway Farms, north of Chicago, for the first time in about fifteen years. In the interim, a combination of miscues seem to have contributed to what once was a nice, naturalist, wetlands and minimalist design to devolve into an inconsistent version of a course that seems to be equal parts resort and artificial parklands course.
I found three examples of huge, revetted bunkers, which was odd, since the rest of the bunkers are boilerplate Fazio. On the 17th hole, a lovely faux Pac Dunes par 3, an enormous, gnarly beast of a bunker with fescue growing out of the faces was striking, but entirely out of place with the rest of the course. Then, it was obvious that there's been some interfering with the planting of trees and bushes, mostly to line fairways and "frame" greens. Horrific. Finally, the 18th hole has an artificial creek with some boulders that they probably got from Utah and a limestone bridge or two.
Individually, there are a lot of nice holes on this course, but the internal inconsistencies, which some might see as variety, detracted from the whole.