I think one of the reasons I'm so enamored with rumpled fairways is that none of the courses I grew up playing had them. There was generally some slope to each hole, either side-slope or up or down hill or some variation (I grew up in Colorado), and on the flatter courses there might be the occasional hillock or use of mounding. Nothing, though, like what's seen on some of the links courses or on courses like Ballyneal. I like it for a lot of reasons. First, because I love watching a ball roll on the ground. Second only to watching a ball arc through the air, it is to me one of the basic joys of golf. Playing the roll is just fun. Playing the roll well is even more fun. Second, a rumpled fairway adds strategy, or at least choice, to the tee shot. If I'm thinking at all about where I'd like to play my next shot from, then finding a reasonably level place in the fairway to hit from is important. I like the notion that if I miss that spot, then I get a more challenging lie to hit from, but not something like rough or bunkering, where your next is more in the realm of a recovery shot. Third, from an aesthetic viewpoint, it's so different from the look of the courses I grew up on. That close-mown grass (to me a look that is FAR from natural, but none the less beautiful because of it) draped over all of those little slopes and valleys.....is just gorgeous.