I think forcing a high pitch approach (as opposed to a bump-run approach) is much more an American design goal than a classic Scottish design goal. Certainly the "backwards bunker" that is hidden from view is a links-style feature, but they are almost never located directly in front of the green. At least they weren't on the nine Scottish links courses I played. There were plenty of those types of bunkers, but they were designed to catch drives and short approaches, not pitches into the green from the fairway.
Zaphod - this is one of the reasons that the electric cart is evil. A designer should be able to add interesting (and sometimes devilish) features to a course without requiring multiple plays to learn them. That's what caddies are for. Sure, if you want to walk onto a course for the first time and play it without a caddie, you should prepare to be surprised.
I guess the designer of Wild Rock decided he was going to make HIS course -first timer playability be damned.
"Maybe he could sell it on Ebay, say it looks like the Virgin Mary, Sergei Fedorov, or Leno."
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