The world’s most famous courses are extraordinary, but design excellence is not reserved for global icons. Great design decisions are made on courses of every size and budget, in every country in the world.

Learning to see design quality in everyday courses — to notice why a bunker is placed where it is, to appreciate a green that creates interesting putting situations, to feel the logic of a tee shot that offers two clear routes — is a skill that makes every round of golf richer.

Your home course, wherever you play, was designed by someone with intentions. Those intentions may be sophisticated or simple, expensive or modest — but they exist. Understanding the design of the course you play most often gives you a deeper relationship with it.

This week’s final activity invites you to be the architect of a course you know — to look at it with the eyes you have been developing over five weeks of study, and to understand for the first time what you are actually playing.