Johnson also wrote:
"Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature."
and,
"Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life."
Is there one out there, past or present, who serves as the Shakespeare of golf design? Who provides the best mix of comedy and tragedy? Most designers say they try to, or at least pretend to, imitate nature. Who has done it the best?