andyson:
A very interesting idea zags! And a very good one IMO.
Here's an article on hole by hole Reverse Course routing.
Worth consideration by the WGT Game architects I think. A bit of a challenge for them to figure out which photos to use on the new hole. Using the new reverse #1 hole for example...
Play from the current 1st tee to the current 17th hole.
Tee shot using current 1st hole photo(s)
Ball in flight landing in current 1st fairway or even current 18th fairway. These would be the aerial helicopter shots looking back to the 1st tee and looking back to the current 18th tee.
Approach shot to the 17the green from either the current 18th fairway or current 1st fairway.
Great mock-up, Andy.
Just imagine coming into the Road Hole from the other side! And many more cool examples all along the course. Only the 18th would play pretty similar to now, when players would be driving into the 1/18 fairway from the left instead of the right, but in real life they already treat the 1/18 fairway as one big wide fairway, which is what it is really.
The site you give a link to ponders various alternatives to a pure reverse route which might be required for safety's sake to avoid crossing fairways from different sides (especially around the turn). But this would be no barrier in virtual golf! (As it must have been no barrier in ye olde days, when just a few local people were playing the links at St. A's.) WGT could pursue a pure reverse route, where no hole would play the same as in the 'canonical' route.
On the other hand, I'm not sure how the reverse route is actually played on those couple of days a year when they do run the course in that direction.