Melvyn you have distorted the argument by posting pictures like that.
The great things that we like on this site are often unusual, unusual in my mind equals the word quirk. No modern design would include playing over the corner of a hotel or sheds, or building a green in a bath tub, drivin blind over a hill, a wal infront of the green, greens that radically fall the wrong way, pits, roads, crossing holes, double greens, fairways abutting other others. They impact on common sense and in many cases impeed our agronomy rules or health and safety rules. The very things that are loved are often things you cant do in 2012, you cant play holes back into a town with walkers and shops a few yards off the fairway... SO NO its not the way you can look to design modern courses.