Thought I'd resurface this interesting topic rather than start a new one that might not gain much steam.
I played Banyan Golf Club today and found it to be quite enjoyable. The course did not blow me away, but I left feeling as though it and the other aspects of the club suit the members' purposes pretty perfectly.
The course was designed by Joe Lee and opened in 1973; it's a pretty on-the-nose example of golf courses built in that era by people not named Pete Dye - it's very straightforward tee-to-green, lots of "4 and 8 o'clock" greenside bunkering but almost always enough room to run a ball up onto a green, which is necessary for a club that seems to take a lot of rounds from older male and female players.
I thought there was an interesting aesthetic contrast between the two nines. On the front, each hole is at least mostly isolated with a border (well off the fairway, mostly) of palms and palmettos, mostly, keeping it out of sight of adjacent holes. Under those vegetative borders is the hard-packed sand that serves as a good and unintrusive cart path surface. But the back nine, for the most part, has almost a savanna-like feel, with a big contiguous field of maintained grass connecting holes 10-15. The last three holes are more like the front side. It wasn't a jarring difference, but I was struck by it.
The course was in really excellent shape - very green, certainly, but firm enough that shaping approach shots in the right direction was advantageous. The greens were the perfect speed, given that there was some grain in them. Downhill down-grain putts were quite slick. I was also pleased to see that the primary rough is kept quite short - it's not the type of place where the membership prioritizes the ability to brag about how tough the course is.
Likewise, the clubhouse is not ostentatious and blends in perfectly to the environment. The '70s seemed to be a pretty hit-or-miss time architecturally; Banyan's clubhouse struck me as a hit.
Suffice it to say that I thought there was a great deal of balance at Banyan. I am not nearly well-traveled enough to make any declarations about whether this put-togetherness is typical of traditionally Jewish clubs, but there you have it.