Tiger,
How do you feel about so many of the courses that debut well, earning best new this or that, ranked early on, only to disappear later?
Do you have the same concerns for the courses that start with a bang and then go away, as you do for one that was panned early on only to develop a following later?
Doesn't history show that often times, be it good or bad, courses are misjudged while in their infancy? Everyone keeps saying things about this resurgence (and spreading innuendo) but isn't it possible that DR was just hard to accept at first because it was so different then Sand Hills?
I'm left with something Ron W from Golf Digest wrote when he was remembering quotes form Geoff Cornish.
I don't know the exact quote, but Geoff said something like this..."almost every great hole was controversial early on".