Sean - thanks, that's very well put, and makes perfect sense.
Peter
When a course is in good nick we now can have a good idea of how well it is designed. To me, courses can still be great if designed for wetter conditions, but it takes more savvy, probably better terrain and extremely interesting greens to make it happen. Its easier to design a great course on what can be firm land because more variation is available. Anything that can be produced on a wet property can be reproduced on a firm property, but the same thing doesn't hold true the other way around. Mind you, when a course can show off its angles it must not only have angles, but also width to make the angles more meaningful in terms of available options of play. Its a truly depressing thing to see a wonderful design in good nick presented with a lack of width
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