John,
Bryan, just a few questions:
Best course you've ever played?
I'm not a fan of discrete ranking of courses. There are so many good ones that i like that it's impossible for me to pick just one out. Amongst those that I really like are Teeth of the Dog, the Ocean Course at Kiawah, The Old Course, Royal Dornoch, TPC Sawgrass, North Berwick West, Osprey valley Heathlands, Cruden Bay, Barnbougle Dunes, Pacific Dunes, ................... and on it goes in no particular order.
Biggest letdown of a course (over-rated course, however you like to phrase it)?
Biggest letdown was Pebble Beach. Too much self inflicted hype before going, a bad round, and a feeling that it was a waste to pay that much (back when the fees were lower than they are today) to play a bad round of golf. And, in those days the fairways were fairly undefined, and hence the course felt wide open, unlike it looks today. And, before anyone starts questioning my sanity, I'm not saying it's a bad design. I was just let down by extraneous factors.
What do you do for a living?
Now, I'm semi-retired. I do some consulting to large IT firms on how to make successful bids on large dollar value RFP's.
Before I retired, I managed an organization providing computer and telecommunication services.