So I was out at Alwoodley today - a soggy and unplayable Alwoodley, alas, but I was kindly allowed to walk the course. (I do think that you can't really call yourself a student of golf course architecture unless you've ever walked a course just to look at it and study it, but I digress.)
For me, the most interesting land on the course is at the far end, as far away from the clubhouse you can get, particularly at the par-5 10th hole (thought by some to be what MacKenzie had in mind when designing the 13th at Augusta National) and the uphill par-3 11th hole in the opposite direction.
My home course of Dunbar is very similar in this regard - my favorite holes (the 9th and 11th in particular) are at the far end of the course, and therefore unfortunately the holes I've played the least because I'm always looping around to play 1-5 and then 18 or 1-6 and 17-18 or 1-7 and 15-18 (etc.). And then I got to thinking, this is quite common: from Turnberry to Pebble Beach, the most interesting land on out-and-back courses is often at the far end. There is an obvious reason for this, of course, being that the clubhouse is usually nearest to civilization as such and therefore less likely to be on wild and undulating terrain. But perhaps you know of courses where this isn't true, and the best land is nearest the clubhouse? I'd be interested to hear your nominations in this regard. (Half Moon Bay is one that springs to mind, although that's a bit of a cheat.)