I too am, of course, very pleased at Sean's well deserved recognition, and very appreciative of the wonderful resource that is now permanently in place.
I would add this: Ran writes that "you can read about 7,000 yard plus, water strewn, expensive, slow-playing, over-maintained, bland tournament courses elsewhere". True enough. But you can now also read about "retail-priced, high-profiled, top-ranked, leading-edge architectured, far-flunged, resort-based, once-in-a-lifetimed, main-lined exclusive" courses elsewhere (and here, and there, and everywhere).
The average, English course - the 4s, and 5s, and 6s that for decades have with modesty and restraint and simplicity and affordability served their purpose exceedingly well as ideal venues for the game of golf and all of its pleasures: about those, the lifeblood of the game, we can only read (or at least read most satisfyingly) in the works of Mr. Arble.
I may never get there to the UK, and I may never play any of the courses profiled. But that doesn't matter. These courses exist, and Sean highlights and promotes them, which helps keep them healthy and vibrant for others to enjoy for many many years.
Peter