Wowie ... Zowie ... What Frankenstein of a thread did I hatch?!?!
I am not qualified to be a rater, because as in many fields, an individual has to go through a certain fundamental process of learning, experiencing and absorbing. In the case of GCA, it is the on the ground study and understanding of the acknowleged great courses of the world. IMO, but arguably ANGC, PV, TOC, Royal Melbourne, Muirfield, Pinehurst No. 2, CP, Shinny?, WF?, Merion? & maybe a few more represent the Rosetta Stone of Golf Design. The opportunity for a single individual to do any fraction of that is quite daunting and difficult. These places are, for the most part, not in the public domain and not very welcoming.
That has not been my path in life.