Here's how I see the comparison between StoneRidge and Troy Burn, and I have to admit I was surprised when I totaled it up:
#1 -- SR over TB. I could be persuaded that Troy Burn #1 is a better hole -- tougher, for sure, even though it's a par 5 -- but I like #1 at StoneRidge better. Seems to me I've had a putt for birdie 80 percent of the time I've played that hole, though I've probably birdied it just a couple of times. I like starting that way; I like a first hole that doesn't demand four good shots, or else I'm over par out of the chute.
#2 -- SR over TB. Troy Burn's second hole is an killer, a long par 4 with water all the way down the left and bunkers right; I rarely see anyone hit in two shots. It's easy to be three over par after two on this course.
#3 -- SR over TB. Troy's third is a straightforward par 3, usually a not-too-demanding 7 iron, though the hogbacked green is a good one. But #3 4 at SR is one of the most interesting shorter par 4's I've played. The cross bunker on the right can be carried by a long hitter, but to me it makes more sense to hit driver left of it or lay up short of it. Trouble is, if you're too long left of the cross bunker, you're in a large waste area, and if you lay up, your approach to the green is blind. The green is long and narrow, falling away front, left and right. A very cool hole, I think.
#4 -- TB over SR. Troy's #4 is a shorter version of SR's #3, where you've got to lay up short of the bunker at the end of the fairway, or really thread a drive over a ridge and away from the bunkers to a blind green. Way more fun that the par 5 at SR, where you can't reach the green in two, and your approach is do-or-die to a plateau green with a front edge that falls some 30 feet back to the fairway, and has a pot bunker and gnarly weeds behind.
#5 -- Draw between the par 5 at TB and the par 4 at SR. I think they're both outstanding holes. Specifically, the par 5 at TB is what #4 at SR should be: long and demanding some accurary, but with a green that better accepts a third shot; and the par 4 at SR is what #2 at Troy should be: long, demanding two really well-hit shots, but with a big green to which you can, and probably should, play a ground-game approach.
#6 -- SR over TB, though I like both holes. Trouble with the par 4 at Troy is that is a little too much like #4, and its green is probably a little too severe. It's more strategic than the par 4 at SR, but I have to give extra credit for the biarritz green at SR #6.
#7 -- Draw. Hard to compare a par 3 with a serious false front that almost plays like a redan (hell, I guess it is a redan, given the way the green runs to the back) to a par 4 from an elevated tee that requires a straight tee shot between well placed fairway bunkers. I like them both.
#8 -- SR over TB. I've never particularly liked the uphill par 3 at Troy -- just doesn't do much for me, seeing as how I need to hit driver there most days now. SR's uphill par 4 is a quirky hole, almost a double dogleg with no trees, just fairway bunkers, and a well-placed drive can give you an easy wedge to the green, but if you play for the fat part of the fairway, you'll have a really tough angle into the two-tiered green.
#9 -- Sr over TB. I like the par 3 at SR; it's got an interesting island green, pushed up and surrounded by bunkers. No ground game here. TB's par-4 9th is too damned long. Driver, three-wood, wedge for me, unless there's a howling wind behind me.
My preferences on the back nines would be:
10 -- SR (noplace to drive your ball at TB)
11 -- SR (Barn hole should be a birdie every time, but that damn two-tier green is tough and well-defended)
12 -- TB (Par 5 at Troy should be a birdie every time, but see previous comment)
13 -- SR (though I wish I'd played the "reachable" 13th at SR when I was capable of reaching it)
14 -- TB (too do-or-die on the SR par-3. The recovery shot from the waste area down below on the right to the elevated green is a shot nobody should have to play.)
15 -- SR (not a great par 3 at Troy; really fun downhill drive and very tough uphill second shot at SB)
16 -- TB (it's just a slug off the tee to an odd three-tiered green on the par-3 at SR; the par 5 at TB takes length and placement)
17 -- Draw (both approaches are dangerous, both holes can be birdied)
18 -- TB (A little easier to get home in two, of the two long par 4s. I always figure you should have a chance at a birdie on the last hole)
So that makes it 10-5-3 for StoneRidge. I guess I strongly prefer SR's front nine, and figure it's about equal on the back nines.