Here are the flaws with this thread...
1. We can only suppose what someone who is not I/us would think of a golf course. No one on this site is a retail golfer, at least the kind to which we often refer condescendingly, yet also the kind that keeps the industry alive. It's like the Red/Blue divide come election day. The liberal elite forgets that the Red mass is the one that usually defends our country and grunts its mills, factories, highways and other blue-collar work tasks. Let us not become a liberal elite GCA;
2. Said person's reaction might or might not be based solely on how well she/he played (I suspect it would);
3. Does Public status necessitate some specific fault/flaw? Do you really mean "crapped-out muni conditions wrought by a municipality that doesn't give a rat's posterior beyond making money and providing a minimal service to residents"?
4. Don't forget that none of you (nor I) was born with an innate sense of what is right about great golf course architecture. I've been consciously learning about GCA for 12 years and, as Patrick Mucci will confirm, still have much to learn. If a general public were exposed to what we consider to be great GCA, it would also need and deserve the same amount of time/learning curve to come to appreciate what was suddenly dropped into its lap.