I live in Hagerstown, MD and the (very nice) local country club is a beautiful "housing course". This is Fountainhead CC, built in 1924 and designed by Ross. I'm pretty sure Ross did visit the property to do the routing and plans, then the course was built to his plans after he was done -- which is somewhat better than a true "mailed in" course.
In aerials from the mid to late 1920s, right after the course went in, this area was north of the main built-up portion of the city. However, about 30-40 percent of the houses were already in place -- chiefly on the northern and western perimeter of the course. You could see how the holes had been laid out to allow some new avenues within the property, keeping future development in mind. But the room provided was generous.
By World War II, aerials show most of the neighborhood was built out.
Today, the golf course retains its original routing. And because Hagerstown has never really been a thriving city, the club had just enough money to nicely maintain -- but not enough to go around tearing things up and modernizing. From what I can tell in the rounds I've played there, the small features look original and resemble what I see in photos of many Ross New England courses (there are numerous holes built in rocky areas just like the 8th at Charles River, for instance).
What makes this a good "housing course"?
1) An excellent architect designed it with the houses in mind, but with golf as a priority (judging by Ross correspondence I have seen or heard of re: Fountainhead).
2) The land was perfect for the design of the golf course, with good movement/features and decent pre-existing drainage in most parts of the property.
3) The architecture of the HOUSES matches the Golden Age design of the golf course -- nice bungalows, stone ranchers, larger colonials, etc. The design relationship between the building architecture and the landscape/golf architecture makes me think immediately of the 5-part Tom MacWood essay on Arts & Crafts influence on golf's Golden Age.
4) Proper space was allowed for both houses and golf course to have some breathing room. There are few if any places where one is in danger of driving into someone's back yard, much less their picture window. Yet in most cases the occupants of the houses can see nice views. These are fairly large lots, inasmuch as their setback from the fairways anyhow.
All of this prevents the Fountainhead development from seeming contrived -- from both a golfing and housing standpoint. It's by far the nicest neighborhood in town without seeming transparently ostentatious the way a 1980s cooked up scheme on bad land with McMansions might be.