Peter,
Thanks for the link. I enjoyed this as well. It's interesting to hear JN talk about this from his personal view. I don't think I'd enjoy playing the course he describes and perhaps it's one of the reasons his courses I've played so far don't blow me away. I wonder if during architecture he thinks of the course mainly from his standpoint, like he did when making up his best 18 Open holes. 7500 + yards of links golf in the wind would be ridiculous hard and like he says he wonders if any pros could be close to par. Architecture through the eyes of the best players like Tiger or Jack seems extra challenging for the rest of us. They are so much better than the other pros, I think a lot of what interests them are like Jack was saying, what would be the toughest test to bring the most out of their games and shot making skills.
Perhaps impossible for us mere mortals.