These comments remind me of a conversation several years ago after several of us played Tobacco Road for the first time. I can't remember exactly how this managed to happen, but almost simultaneously a scratch-playing friend said he hated the course and couldn't see playing it more than a couple times a year and I said I liked the course and felt it would be fun to play a couple times a year (living within an hour). We all had a good laugh and discussion about perspective and expectation as it relates to "rating" courses.
After 5 or 6 rounds, all in the winter since, the most recently last weekend, I still feel the same way.