I like courses that show the golfer pretty much everything he or she has to know from the tee and from the fairway. Holes where it's all right there for you to see. I think that was one of Donald Ross's design principles. I think I might rely on the golfers to trick themselves up by putting in some risk-reward choices that might appeal to their greed for a low score.

However, I also like Alistair MacKenzie courses. As I understand it, during World War I he became impressed with the art of camouflage, and incorporated visual deception into a hole's design. So, out of respect for Dr Mackenzie, I might use an occasional false front on a green, or maybe put a bunker about 20 yards in front of a green in such a way that, from the fairway, the bunker looks as if it's directly in front of the green. Players might mis-club that way. But I wouldn't do anything that a golfer wouldn't figure out after playing the course a few times, to acquire "local knowledge."

Interesting question, c-b-c!