It's a good point your bring up, and I wondered the same thing. It's hard not to laugh when you see courses like Salem, St. Louis, Yale, Plainfield, Myopia and Piping Rock intermingling with such architectural stalwarts as Pumpkin Ridge, Firestone, Colletin River (take your pick!), The Dunes, and Atlantic.Since it's hard to come up with a concrete explanation, I'd chalk this weird disparity up to the lack of criteria for the judges, the post-Tom Doak making up to Rees Jones for all he has suffered (after all, he is a modern day genius), and the lack of any kind of interest in architecture as opposed to the all-important characteristics like accessibility, prestige, location, politics, friend of the magazine, etc...