The routing gives me the impression that Tom Doak likes to change landscape character areas often and he seems impatient to bring the golfer to the sea as soon as possible. From the 2nd tee is possible to see the water in the background, it then goes back into the dunes, and then to the sea again, the last hole on the sea is the 13thwhich is quite surprising, because the player then spends the last 1/3 of the round in the dunes, forgetting about the water and the sound of the waves. The architect justifies his choices, stating that the topography, including the existing dunes and the valley between them guided his design, but I feel like the choices in the sequence of holes and not having one or two holes on the sea later on during the round doesn’t maximise the use of the features of the site. People go to play on the Pacific Ocean to feel the contact with the water, to flirt with the natural hazard, and have a good memory of the views of the shore, players don’t want to spend the last hour and a half in the middle of the dunes remaining only with some memories of them instead, once back home This works perfectly in its neighbour course, Bandon Dunes, use the water feature with this point of view, the last hole on the sea is the 16th and the 17th and the 18th which bring back the player to the clubhouse crossing the whole property.