I played Robin Hiseman’s Czech Casa Serena course in 2010 for the media day of the Euro senior tour event it was hosting.
This is a course on the grounds of a 17th Century chateau painstakingly renovated by the owners of the Chinese technology company Foxcon. They fancied a golf course to play when they were staying there, so they hired EGD to build them one.
Suffice to say, this course might get less play than anything other than Gwest.
After the round, Robin, Adam Lawrence and I played an extra nine with the super and one of his crew. I remember them in the same breath as they enthused about how amazing it was to be able to maintain such an impeccable course, lamenting the futility they sometimes felt in their mission.
I can understand the crew at a course that does 40,000 rounds a year lamenting the issues of so much play just as I can imagine mowing a green that no one has played on since you last mowed it maybe lacking some purpose.
Ultimately, humans are programmed for problem-solving. So whatever situation we find ourselves in, if we can’t find an immediate problem to identify and solve, our brains will create one for us.