Pat
The only thing that confuses me on this thread is your unwillingnes to admit that you are wrong, which you may be, and hopelessly contradicitory, which you surely are. IMHO it's time for you to "man up" and accept that you are a moron (at least GCA-wise) and go back to enjoying your golf rather than trying to pretend that you know diddly-squat about many things related to GCA.
Vis a vis my confusion, I understand many things that you do not and fully admit that I do not understand many things that you seem to understand (eg. Mani T'eo). So be it. Vis a vis Sand Hills, I've (hopefully) graciously turned down several chances to play there, and have only played NGLA once but when one lives in the Kingdom of Fife, and can drive for 3 hours to play Royal Dornoch at ones will, why spend days of one's life and thousands of one's Benjis just to fly and then drive to inferior (or at the best closely equivalent) golfing venues?
I call your 4th at Sand Hills (with the 4th at Dornoch, which is the greatest golf hole in the world, IMHO) and raise you the 11th at Royal Dornoch!
Hopefully, one day we shall play golf together and enjoy the apres golf and resolve your inability to admit that you are a moron. But one can just dream, can they not.....?
Yours Truly
Rich