Bill,
Yes I did play it. I think I may have even been in your group but I'm not certain about that. I'd have to check my journal.
I think you may have misconstrued my comments. The critical words in my post were "in the form it was presented". By this I mean that there were up to 10 holes (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 from memory) that needed rough and/or gorse trimmed from the front of the green if it was to play in a similar fashion to TOC. On some of these it was a sever imposition on the playability of the hole (16, 12, 4, 6). The Links Trust is very unlikely to remove the rough I speak of because it would change TOC as we have come to know it, or at least how they like to present it so it is at least similar to its championship presentation. They hold the Links Trophy there each year and I doubt they would consider what they would think is compromising that event for what may be now considered a novelty.
All that said it was an experience that I loved.