Except for those hit into water hazards, I reckon most golf balls are lost from tee-shots, especially tee shots hit early on in a round. Indeed, point number 10 in Dr MacK's 13 points is "There should be a complete absence of the annoyance and irritation caused by the necessity of searching for lost balls." Now my general personal preference is for tight courses with loads of severe hazards. But that's just my personal preference. Many will no doubt disagree, they would like more space. I don't really mind more space off the tee, lots more space if land availability permits, and am content to play such a course if that's to be the case, but if it's a wide spaces for tee-shots kinda course I'd like to see the necessity to have to play pretty skilful approaches into the greens. In other words, hit it into the correct area from the tee or you'll have a tough next shot.
One of my favourite courses is Minchinhampton Old, the course on the common with cattle and horses etc. There is loads of space off the tee, masses of it, witness this photograph of the tee shot on the 1st hole, which is pretty indicative of the space available off the tee on the majority of the par-4's and par-5's.
But if you hit your tee shot to the wrong area of fairway, then at Minch' Old there are a multitude of greenside humps and mounds and hollows to avoid or play over, some of them very severe, so approach shots become far more difficult, especially as the greens are pretty small, contoured and very firm.
Here is an example of what awaits at the side of a green, this is the 7th hole, with the photo taken the from the front left side. The pit is very, very deep, time for a lob wedge with a open face and a near full swing, plus the green is narrow and more humps and hollows awaits on its far side.
And here is another example, photo taken from the right side of the 17th green. This photo has flattened out the contours a bit, but if you miss the green on the left side, the far side in the photo, you'd better be using a ball that will spin, have new clean grooves on your lob wedge and be playing into the wind or else you'll struggle to even stop the ball on the green.
I guess a summary of my Minch' Old example would be - easy tee shot, difficult approach, although I reckon modern equipment has negated this aspect now as the modern driver is easier to hit, hybrids have largely replaced long irons, the modern ball flies straighter and the grooves on irons and wedges perform better.
Just some thoughts.
All the best.