Great.
There is going to be alot of debate about We-Ko-Pa vs. Talking Stick.
It's late here and I simply don't have the energy right now to write anything too detailed, but here is an overview.
The routing is exceptional. It is very walkable. Many times the walk from a green to the next tee was no more than fifteen to twenty yards, and in many cases the next tee (the back tee in all cases) was contiguous with the previous hole's green complex.
The par threes are all very different. Yardages vary, as mentioned, from 137 to 255. The long par three drops perhaps forty feet, though it doesn't seem like it due to the length. But a well struck four wood got me to hole high. The green slopes front right to back left, aiding the shot.
A most interesting characteristic are the five very short par fours- all under 330 yards form the tips.
There are a few central bunkers, but most bunkers serve as transition areas from desert to fairway, or as green protection.
I don't recall one hole that required a lofted approach. Maybe the short three no. nine, but there is more room in front than one sees from the tee.
Every hole offers alternative routes. There are some very long par fours on the second nine; they all offer a way to shorten the hole by challenging the desert.
There is no out of bounds.
There is no open water and there are no creeks. Dry, brush filled arroyos fill those roles.
The split fairway par five may be the best of its kind I have played.
There is a preponderance of doglegs left.
There is no pitch to any fairway or green that fights the lay of the land.
Gotta go. More tomorrow.