Re: Olympic, you guys are not understanding the issues. Joe Passov's description has nothing to do with the ranking. What has to do with the ranking is guys like me rating the course even though I haven't played it for twenty years. You can tell me they've cut down a lot of trees, but I'm not going to change my rating for the course over that. [Indeed, based on the picture above of #3, the one tree they didn't cut down is the one that would unfairly knock down a shot.]
Mike Bowen: I used to think that the cachet of private courses helped them in the rankings, but I don't believe it's so. My three highest-rated courses are all publicly accessible. They get much more publicity from the magazines because they are public and I think that helps when it comes time to rate them.