Jason~ Funny you should ask. I actually have the opportunity to play Shadow Glen in late September. I am really looking forward to it as I have not heard a bad thing about the course. I will be happy to give out the details after my visit.
Dan~ Myself being a lifelong Royals fan, I don't think anybody but us and Pirates fans can talk about bad baseball... especially the Twins who have been putting it to my team for quite a few years. The Flint Hills is a beautiful area... just miles upon miles of big, rolling hills of pastureland and native grasses. Prairie Dunes isn't really located in the Flint Hills... Probably just a little to the west of them. PD actually sits on an area of unbelievable sand dunes that stretches for quite a ways in central KS. I have never been to Scotland, but if you dropped me at PD I would think I was there.
There's not really a KS golf trail, but there is the land for it. The problem, like Nebraska, is that there really isn't the population or economic base to support it. For example, Faldo designed a course, Cottonwood Hills, just down the road from PD. t was open for maybe two years and had to close up shop. I really enjoyed the place... it was no PD, but it was fun golf on land that us Kansans aren't used to. Granted, it was based on housing and built at the wrong time, but it just doesn't seem viable to build courses here right now. I sure wish it was... maybe someday.
Terry~ Funny. I have a postcard from Bandon hanging in my office reminding me of my hopeful visit someday. When my 8 year old first saw it she said "daddy, if they had named that place Brandon Dunes it would be the coolest place ever!"