Terrific profile Ran, of a very unique golf course. Here's a bit of what I wrote after playing there for the first time earlier this year.
The Banks Course at Forsgate has terrific "bones" with an intact original routing and some appropriately terrifying deep and steep bunkering from "Steamshovel Charles Banks. Indeed, it's an interesting exercise to simply view the course from a cut and fill perspective to see how his deep excavations created the necessary dirt to build up his features.
The land has some nice movement and the course fits the ground well, with the routing taking advantage of some natural features such as the cool punchbowl benched into the hillside on #5. The par threes are particularly stellar, and well representative of the MacRaynor templates, with Forsgate offering an Eden, a Redan (reverse), a Short, and a Biarritz that is staggering in its dimensions. Those holes punctuate the landscape and are the clear highlights.
Not that the rest isn't noteworthy but with few exceptions, most notably on the back to back par five 8th and 9th, it relies on a sameness of style and strategic demands that becomes a bit predictable.
What ultimately diminishes Forsgate however, is the over-planting of low-lying soft white pine trees that line most fairways. They cheapen the experience and diminish the potential to use angles to approach the wildly bold, highly undulating greens. In fact, removing all of them would likely bring the course up a full Doak Scale point or more; the architecture is that compelling. Unfortunately, that seems unlikely.