John
a successful writer once told me to remember to "leave room for the audience". That implies/suggests many things, one of which is leaving space in the writing for the audience to insert itself into, and to fill in the blanks as it sees fit. Try as he/she might to telegraph and dictate thoughts and emotions, the writer can never completely shape the audience's response (or maybe only in very bad writing is the attempt even made). The writer can never know what an individual reader/audience member might be bringing to the table on a particular day. Similarly, it seems to me that the architect might believe that hole X is the best designed on the course, and he may even be objectively right about that; but who's to know if hole Y, maybe a throw-away hole most days (even in the architect's eyes) won't leave the most room for the golfer to insert himself into it, at least on one particlaur day when all the conditions converge. If it does, the golfer will have participated more on that hole than on the best hole on the course...and I think enjoy it more on that account.
Peter