Golf course design is a vexatious subject – one golfer’s favourite is another’s object of derision. Like art, course design greatness is in the eyes of the beholder.

Rees Jones is one of the world’s pre-eminent golf architects, a long-established course designer of global reputation. He is the son of Robert Trent-Jones, the US’s most famous designer who oversaw the building of more than 500 courses and whose became the United States Golf Association’s chief fiddler when it came to beefing up an old course to host a US Open. “Doctor Open” was the inevitable soubriquet attached to the elder Trent-Jones, who died in 2000 aged 94.