Patrick,
Sitting and thinking about it, the primary allure of NGLA (to me) is the overwhelming sensation of playing golf in an enormous Fun House - a combination of Disneyland, Chutes and Ladders, three dimensional chess and a perseverative compulsion to keep running the same movie over and over again without ever coming close to fully digesting it. It is trite, but that old saw about golf in which "you may exhaust yourself, but never your subject" holds true here.
It is certainly possible Augusta would inspire the same kind of obsessive madness, I just don't know. Cypress Point is interesting because the least spectacular of the holes are often the most intellectually challenging. My favorite on the golf course is #4 - which surprises nearly everyone - yet my sense is that the otherworldly ocular overload on a macro scale tends to divert attention away from the little details that make Cypress so outstanding.
NGLA is absolutely beautiful, but let's face it, the eastern wall of America does not compare to the grandiose spectacle of the Pacific pounding against our jagged coastline here. That may annoy the Eastophiles, but them be the facts. That stated, the least intricate hole at NGLA is more intricate than the most intricate hole anywhere out west - with the possible exception of a couple standouts in Bandon.
Patrick, when evaluating the relative merits of the fairer sex, my history of serial monogamy - interspersed with the occasional torrid tryst - puts me in upper management for certain, but not in the boardroom. You are the CEO Emeritus of all things femina pulchra, so I'll defer to your superior wisdom.