Tom D - thanks for that. In answering the question you referenced a more general point, i.e. that even after the final routing, "the design is only half-done at this stage". Is that mainly a figure of speech - or is your thought really that here at DR (and other courses you've designed), much of the "final design" has nothing to do with routing?
Eric, JC, Kalen - I DON'T want to help Tom and his team construct the course, but I DO wish I could be a fly on the wall watching you three white-collar effetes shovelling dirt around with your baby-powder hands and flabby golfing 'physiques' in the late summer heat. (No criticism involved, mind you - in describing you three I'm of course only describing myself!).
Peter