Ron--
Unfortunately I have yet to play Yale/Taconic so I cannot comment on comparability. But as Sven said, there is a serious antique waiting to reveal itself underneath a little dust in Culver, IN. I spent the 4th on Lake Maxinkuckee last year, went around the track 4-5 times. Here are a few of the pics I took in addition to those Ran has presented:
Below is the 1st from the high point in the fairway, about 180 yards out. You can take a 7 iron and run it all the down the left and feeds to the back right. It's amazing terrain to start
here is from the green looking back:
Here's a bunker that's hidden from the first tee, but is challenging to the long hitter, I took the first photo I attached just on the top of that ridge. Hit it in this bunker, pay the price:
Here's a view of the 3rd green, you can see the elevation on the top left of the photo, that's the first hole in the distance. If you look closely on the green, you can see that huge swale that feeds to the 7 o'clock in our picture. To my understanding that is all green space recovered from Weed.
here's another view of the 3rd, you can get a better look at that swale, and then you can see the entirety of the 4th in the distance. the hole is 370 but 270 to carry on a direct line to the green uphill, I'm not short by any means but it was so hard to carry the bank. I think this whole is world clasd :
here's the view from the tee, i think this hole is incredible because you can play 6 iron-8iron, hybrid-pw, 3wd flip wedge, driver-bump in. What's amazing is the farther you go the more sloped (above your feet) your second shot will be:
here's from the green looking back, you can see the kick plate in the front right:
here's the 8th, the front third was seriously expanded, you can see it a little here although Ran photographed it perfectly:
Finally, the 9th. The 9th reminds me a bit of the 18th at Gulph Mills, it's a hole which the longer player can get to in 2, and there's nothing like making that final climb up and watching your 2nd/3rd sail down the hill into another green which allows balls to roll around:
Is it better than Yale? Probably not, but I think Culver is a top 10 hidden gem in the country. It's golf as we all talk about on here, firm, fast, very walkable, each hole is interesting on its own. I absolutely love looping around the Academies course. I played a few times with 10 sticks, and then at the crack of dawn I'd go 6i/sw/putter and just had a ball. There was a line on here I saw a few years back, "I believe there is a direct correlation between how long your ball rolls on the ground and how much fun one has on a course," there's a pretty high correlation out at Culver.