Adam,
I'm still surprised we made it there at all, as long as it took for that whole scene to play out. And I'm even more surprised my directionally impaired sister made it out there to pick us up, otherwise we would have had to find an establishment even classier than the Golden Plains to stay the night in Parker.
But I think you're on to something when you talk about spectacular. Colorado GC is definitely at it's best when it's not trying to be too spectacular and just letting the interesting piece of ground it sits on do the talking. That may be why so many people I talk to about the course say their favorite holes are the ones through the flats (3,4,5,6,7,12) or the simpler ones through the pines (9,10).
Ian,
I'm still unsure if I prefer #2 or #6. Either way, they offer a nice balance between: 1) grand and intimate scale, 2) long and short, and 3) probably the largest and smallest greens on the course.