Tim,
Yes, I meant Commonground, sorry. I have driven by it, and viewed it from the aerial but not played it. No doubt its a great course. Nor did I take your comments as critique of my work.
However, many of us have a permanently lower fee structure, and spent a lot of time designing very good tracts, on a budget forever. From our point of view, that Doak or RTJ or JN (or their fans) does it and proclaims it as something new and different, it just isn't. Most of us have been applying good design principles in a practical way to mid range public courses for a few decades now.
Well, if its the first Doak style affordable public, then I guess it is, but then, if Brian Silva brings his Raynor templates to a public course, then thats also a pretty exciting design. Or, many original designs by the likes of Tim Nugent and others. There is just more good stuff out there than anyone can possibly play at the public level now. And, if I payed $6-8 in the 70's as a kid, then the $25-45 paid now is well within inflation the same cost range, and you get much better courses.