I don’t know enough to speak to the club's asking price. It is way out of my league. I can say a few things about why I love the course. It is playable for my wife, and it is her favorite place in the world to play.
In the last forty years I have played 180 courses in GB&I, including 70 links courses. I lectured at Oxford for many years. Because I was in England so much. I had overseas memberships at Westward Ho! and Saunton. It was my happy circumstance to have played with our own intrepid travelers, Sean Arble and Mark Rowlinson. I am very familiar with the wonderful courses on the British Isles. I have played TEC over fifty times since 1996. Over the years, Pat has made some minor tweaks to the course. In 1996, the course was a little narrower, and the rough was deeper and thicker. It is now wider, and balls are easier to find and hit out of the rough. Just a year ago, he made some changes to the tee shot on five to make the landing area a little more prominent and more visible from the tee. He felt the green on the par three sixth hole was a tad small, especially with the little creek left of the green, and enlarged it.
There are a bunch of fun shots. Number two is a short par three. The wind typically comes out of the left. The terrain slopes from left to right. For years I lofted a short iron. The wind didn’t like that shot so it seldom landed where I wanted. I finally began to hit little punch shots with much better results. Three is a shortish par five. The landing area for the tee ball is a little saddle. Hit a good tee shot and the green is reachable on the second shot. The problem is that the green sits in the dunes, and the slope of the fairway slopes from left to right. You can hit a safe shot short of the green or you can hit a rope hook that can run onto the green.
Pat walked off the seventh green and found an excellent punchbowl site for an extra part three. He walked off the 12th green, looked south, and saw a natural green site, so he made my favorite par three, 12a. It is a mirror image and reminiscent of Calamity at Portrush. He also has fun. The 12th green is 127 yards long.