I think replayablity, a measure of how often different strategies and unexpected circumstance appear each time you play, is a very important factor in determining the greatest golf courses in the world. However I think people have every right not to consider that when they talk about their favorites because unfortunately the fact of the matter is a lot of them will not actually get to experience that replayable interest. For highly rated resort courses the cost is too high, the distance too far from where they live, or it is just plain too busy to get on often. For highly rated private courses, most won’t even get to play them, but if they do it will only be once or on rare occasion as the guest of a member. If it were possible to run an experiment where the same people play the SV courses all summer long, it would be interesting to see how much their ranking of favorites changes.