Wayne,
Maybe I chose the wrong 'smiley', I was poking a little fun at you and little else. If you think I'm judging your character by any of your opinions about GCA, you're wrong.
My first post on this thread was agreeing with something you wrote. At that time I thought that the 'exercise' was posters giving their opinions of the various characteristics that might be considered 'charming'. I was actually thinking in the positive, I wasn't viewing this as trying to identify 'charm' by going negative on any architect, or any course for that matter, based on my subjective opinions.
As for any other Raynor courses: I know some people consider Hotchkiss to be a charming layout. Their opinion may derive from the way the 3,000 yards of 85 year old golf course weaves its way around the perimeter of our 115 year old campus, with stately brick structures as the interior backdrop. Maybe they like the graceful roll of the fairways and how that appears to seamlessly transition into greensites. Maybe the bit of quirkiness found on our gentle Alps hole adds to the charm. Perhaps it comes when they are standing on our fifth tee (a downhill “Short”), that overlooks Lake Wononscopomuc, the town of Lakeville, and the distant mountains of the Taconic Range, where iron ore was mined and smelted into cannonballs during the Revolutionary War. It might even start earlier for some people, right when they come in the graveled driveway and see the one-story, gray shingled, white trimmed, slightly dilapidated cottage (think ‘Sconset) that serves as our clubhouse (please change your shoes in the parking lot, there’s no room inside). Maybe they think it's 'charming' that they can walk and play our nine holes in as little as an hour 1/2, or stroll around as they please on a quiet weekday morning.