Sean,
15-25 mph with gusts much higher is not uncommon at all in Monterrey along the water. That alone is enough to make those holes brutal. And many times with the wind a marine layer rolls in and you can only see 100 yards in front of you. All elements outside of the architect’s control and can dramatically change a hole (that particular day). Do you downgrade the hole?
I took a friend one time to Cypress and he couldn’t see the 16th green from the tee. We just pointed him in the right direction. Said it was the greatest hole he ever played and never saw
The marine layer was in for a whole week.
It is not the most beautiful golf course when you can’t see it.
I looked at the weather for Bandon after New Years and it is in the 40’s with 25-35 mph winds and gusts higher with some rain. Do you bag your trip, diss the golf courses because of the weather or just play? The answer to the thread’s question is most definitely the wind can make a golf hole play dramatically differently but I don’t think it should determine the quality of the golf hole/course other than for that day. And this is another reason why it takes more than one round to properly evaluate and assess a golf course especially the best ones.
How do you rate a course if it was just aerated or there was an inch of rain the night before or it was just over seeded,…. All these things impact how a hole will play on any given day and how great it is just like the wind. You ideally need to factor all kinds of conditions in your overall assessment of the quality of a golf hole.