David, stop rubbing it in, you know perfectly well that you are very privileged to be a member of a world-class course - that calls for some sympathy towards us poor Germans
But, to expand on Rüdiger's point, I think supply and demand go hand in hand. If there are few great courses to the point of where 90% of the golfing population won't ever play one, then how can you expect them to be especially discerning?
So building great courses and creating appreciation for great courses go hand in hand. I am trying to do my small part for the appreciation side by writing for the Top100GolfCourses.co.uk site and hopefully we will launch a much improved German Top 30 very soon. Rüdiger is doing his part by writing his blog, David is doing his part by ... hmm ... calling attention to the problem
Meanwhile, to refer to another thread, courses like Winston Links or the Boar's head at Hardenberg or the Swan bunker at Hanau are an important and necessary step on that path, because they are at least showing that the standard can be broken free of.
Budersand is a huge quality step for German golf, of course, but how many links courses can you build here? In that respect it is less important than Winston Links or, to name a less controversial course, Wendelinus. Because these are courses that can actually be built in Germany.
Ulrich