I keep rolling this around in my head, the important symbolism of the '147 custodians' instead of 'the next 50'. And I also keep coming back to Ran's stated focus on 'what genuinely matters'.
Powerful concept (and question) that, if we take it seriously: what genuinely matters.
Ran's list of criteria/qualities is a good one, and plus it's *his*, so that's that.
For me, I wonder: should the courses also be custodians of the land itself?
As my old Italian grandfather said when I complimented him one year on a particularly bountiful vegetable garden: "I wasn't feeling well this spring, and so I said to God, 'If you'd like a good crop this year you'll have to do even more of the work than usual' -- and He did! After all, it's not my land, it's God's. A thousand people have lived on this land before me, and a thousand will live on it after I'm gone. All God asks me to do is to take good care of it during my time here."
That sure seems like a true custodian's attitude -- even though my grandfather would never have even heard that word, let alone used it to describe himself.
And that sure seems to me to be one of the things that genuinely matters:
Build a course with the land as you find it, and then maintain the land as if you're its caretaker and not its owner.
And then leave room for God to do the rest.
I'd bet you'd have one heck of a great field of play, and for a very long time.
P