Clearly you haven't played a nice golf course. Or if you have, you haven't stopped to appreciate it the same way you would landscape art. If you did you would t

Clearly you haven't played a nice golf course. Or if you have, you haven't stopped to appreciate it the same way you would landscape art. If you did you would think otherwise. Some of the nicest golf courses in the world provoke far more emotion than you would imagine. Look at some photos of bandon dunes; those holes were designed by master artists. You trying to tell me this "touches the soul": https://imgur.com/a/GahY00u https://imgur.com/a/GahY00u But this doesn't? Where every tree, every mound and turn of the landscape was an intentional alteration of the landscape serving the purposes of both provoking emotions and enabling the game of golf : https://imgur.com/a/E2jwz2x https://imgur.com/a/E2jwz2x Sorry but you would have to be delusional to think that. There is a reason people come from all over the world to enjoy bandon dunes. Michael Heizer spent 50 years making a junkyard and you fell for it. Finally a quote: “Most of their projects were on beautiful rolling parcels of land, and the geometric shapes which they created contrasted with the rolling topography...This yin and yang would draw the golfers’ attention to the target and create a very interesting or thrilling space to hit to. Raynor’s Fishers Island is a very good example of using geometric shapes to draw one’s attention to the target, while highlighting the beautiful surrounds. The shapes of the targets, putting surfaces, are very similar but the grading of the surrounds and the surfaces themselves varies from hole to hole. The grading conforms to the site and space and the lines draw one’s eye in a very subtle way to the powerful landscape surrounds. Golfers enjoy beautiful natural surrounds but also are very stimulated when their target is well defined. Geometric features create these types of situation. This is why I believe most golfers respond favorably to this. Pete Dye used hard and straight lines on several of his designs. While some felt that at times he went too far and did not harmoniously blend his design with nature, his targets were well defined and created stimulation and thought.” Sound somewhat familiar?