It's certainly questionable whether the continued use of Wentworth West really helps what we are endlessly told is the flagship event of the European tour. On reflection, it's not questionable at all. With the demise of the World Match-Play, and the gradual passing of a generation (like Peter Alliss) for whom Wentworth really was the major British inland championship venue (moreso than Sunningdale or Ganton, which remains the only inland course to host the Amateur Championship), its status and reputation (and rankings, for what that's worth) seem to have been in gradual decline, even if I wouldn't perhaps be quite as dismissive as the previous post! It would certainly come a distant fourth for me given a free choice between it and Sunningdale, The Berkshire, Swinley - although in fairness I have always heard good things about the (much shorter) East Course.