Joe,
Thanks for bumping this thread; your photos are excellent, as always. I think it is perfect timing as a second GCA outing has been planned for March, 2014.
Having just listened to Bill Coore's interview on The Golf Channel, I keep thinking about his comment that par is not important to him when routing a course, that he wants to use the most interesting features on the site and build good golf holes. I agree that he did this at Streamsong. The Red is chock full of stunning golf holes.
But having played the course three times in March of 2013, I found our group (ranging from 1 to 12 handicaps) gravitating to our own version of a composite course. For example, we liked the 18th from the back tees, but found it far too easy from the middle tees. But the first hole was far too hard from the back. At 504 yards, we found the 12th to be a beast from either the back tees or one tee forward, so moved up one more. My point is that making one tee selection before teeing off was difficult.
Is this a weakness in design? Or was my group making too big a deal about Par? What does the group think? What will the GCA guys who play it in March think?