Chip - I am extremely lucky, and really didn't fully comprehend it until I came to the US and played some of the good ones over here - it really holds up well when comparing to the other greats of the world.
I now reside in New Jersey, and work at Hidden Creek which is a C&C design. Firm and fast is what we strive for, but in the American sense of the word . . . this picture is hard to duplicate in the US, unless you are out on the tip of Long Island and you turn the water off!
Ian