Ooooo, I'll take the coveted 35th response. Top of the page.
My wife said after playing Chambers Bay, "When you look out a the Sound, it's great. When you look back the other way, it looks like you're playing golf in gravel pit." Chambers Bay's appearance is unnatural and will always be that way. The piles of till that define the holes are unnaturally large and steep, and the course's appearance will always suffer as a consequence. Stone Eagle, overall, is the better looking venue.
In terms of strict golf analysis, Chambers Bay has fine width and playing angles. The par 4s have grand variety, among the best. There is some repetition. Holes 4-5 are similar to holes 13-14. The greens are very nice, though it is really hard to tell how they will play until the greens speed up to 9 feet. Chambers Bay's fescue fairways roll out beautifully, and to me, that is very important.
Chambers Bay's greenside sideboards and backboards are large and, in general, devoid of nuance. You miss on the high side and it rolls down onto the green every time. In general, I think Renaissance Golf builds less regular sideboards a bit smaller with greater variation in result.
Question for everybody, since part of this exercise is to accumulate knowledge and opinions. Can you think of instances a Chambers Bay where different pin locations yield a different best playing angle into greens?
On the humorous side, has anyone seen a bigger false front than Chambers Bay #7? Wow! Sean Leary hit a shot over the big mound that looked pretty good. We got all the way up to the green looking for his ball, then turned around and saw a ball 50 yards short. You've got to hit plenty of club on #7. If you miss short at Sand Hills #1 on a dry day, a similar fate awaits.
Last comment: I'll just reiterate that Stone Eagle does a fine job testing the player's ability to play awkward lies, trust the blind approach after a misdirected drive, and judge uphill and downhill approaches. It's real good at that. It does not regularly test (at least for me) the ability to run a long shot onto the green, where Chambers Bay has three holes (1, 5, and 14) where I see that as a real possibility for me. Unfortunately, no par 5s at Chambers Bay fall into that category, and I would lay up on the par 5s every time. You could do it on 8, but it's too long for me. At Stone Eagle I try to run my second shot into the par 5 13th after a good drive, and sometimes try to roll it into 5, 14 and 18.