Eric
I'm sorry not to have made your acquaintance while you were over here, but I have enjoyed your enjoyment through the pictures, so to speak...
I wonder, what was your overall impression of the courses that you played? I'm familiar with all of them, some admittedly more than others, and it strikes me that you picked a wonderful combination of links, heathland and back to links again
Did you enjoy the contrast between the differing types of course? I'm sure I read elsewhere on GCA that heather is much less common in the US (where I believe you are from) than here in UK, so would others that are not as well-travelled as you find a certain "novelty" value in heathland golf?
As an equivalent example, I haven't played much in the U.S, and never on the West Coast or the South, so I have no idea when people talk about the impact of kikuyu grass at Riviera...