On a good golf course, any natural or pre-existing macro-features/landforms don't stand out to me as 'separate from' the golf holes or the routing, so hand-in-glove they fit together and so 'inevitable' the final product all seems; and the micro-features/hazards similarly blend in together with the routing, so that I can't tell which came first, the routing or the micro-features, or whether the latter were man-made or not. Which is to say: I don't know how to evaluate a routing, and I've never been able to imagine an alternative or 'better' routing/use of features for a golf course I've played; but, if I like the golf course a lot and it has many interesting and varied and engaging golf holes (and few long or convoluted green-to-tee walks), I simply assume that the routing must be very good indeed.