Me personally, I'm not going to put much weight in an opinion from the guy whose website ranks his own golf course 10th in the world, Bandon Trails over Pinehurst No. 2, Sheep Ranch at 49th in the world over Winged Foot West, among others. He's more than welcome to trash his co-authors, I guess, but I find it extremely odd + everything Darius does, from an outside perspective, seems slimy and ill-intentioned to promote his own website/reputation/design work, etc.
I do like the sentence of "more curious is elevation of Rock Creek in Montana, a nice course that is now ranked #73 on the entire planet." That's cheeky, I enjoyed reading it (deserving at 73rd in my mind... not so much to Darius it sounds like!).