Was a great course, and my round has a great backstory. Working with Jim Colbert in Vegas, and suggested I wanted to play SC. A minute later, Colbert's phone rings, it's Steve Wynn, and for some reason, asking how big a driving range had to be. Jim says he's in luck, his architect is in the car, puts me on, I give an answer, and hand it back to Jim. He says, "Thanks, Steve and all that good advice will cost you one round of golf at SC." I played the next day.
But, it gets better. As a single, I get paired with an older gentleman, who as it happened, owned the Ross cottage at the time. And, this was 1995, and I the ASGCA President and planning the next ASGCA Annual meeting for the next spring at Pinehurst, to commemorate our 50th anniversary of the first meeting. I arranged to have our Ross dinner cocktail party there, and he was more thrilled, I think, to host it than our member. Anyway, just by chance it was a nice add to that meeting's schedule.
Oh, and the golf course? I have lots of positive comments, from the best use of distance foolery I can recall, to the fact that, yes, Faz courses cost a lot, but he rarely misses the basics on circulation and drainage, etc. IF I had a negative comment, it was that all the hole corridors were approximately the same width. Built and landscaped from scratch, they did have a perfect opportunity to present some greater variety in hole corridor widths. But, maybe that is just me.
As to those who say it somehow gives golf a bad name, let's face it, someone was going to build the ultimate course somewhere, actually several someones (i.e. ANGC) and as long as there are just a few of those, its really human nature and not a crime against nature. Not to mention, if any Vegas course "reflected it's site" it would be dirt fw and sand greens, so why bring that up?