Old Course at St Andrews and Pebble Beach also known as horrible course designs.
the Old Course at St Andrews isn't known for it's great design, but for it's history.
that said, having parallel holes going opposite directions made it so anyone could easily play as many or few holes as they wished, and end up back at the clubhouse.
as for Pebble Beach, wedged between the ocean and the hill, it's situation could be rectified by putting the clubhouse where the maintenance facility is located, and vice versa, if it were to be used as most courses are. (which it isn't).
neither St Andrews nor Pebble are used today as one's local course is, and both probably see a vastly lower percentage of less than 18 hole rounds as 99.9% of courses do. (Pebble is $600, and not exactly on the beaten trail, so you're probably not playing just a few holes).
as for proper clubhouse location, a case in point would be the old IU course, before they first made it way worse by moving the clubhouse to the wrong place, then totally destroyed the course in one of the great clusterfks of all time. (other than MS in 1960, post 1960 facility thinking has always been one total bone head move after another for the idiots spending IU's facility dollars).
the original course layout was flat fabulous, even if it did need more sand, premium grass, and a water hazard or two.
where the original putting green area was, was one of the most beautiful areas any course could have, and where one could easily observe 6 different holes, all picturesque, just by taking a few steps.
then the IU morons moved the clubhouse to where you were a mile from the clubhouse when you finished the altered front 9, and which also removed a great finishing hole from being the finishing hole any more..
i realize modern golf thinking is that it's more profitable to force people to ride as much as possible, but that doesn't make for better design.
no course should not return you to the clubhouse after the front 9, as that's just a big F U to anyone walking, or not wanting to invest 4-5 hours at a time.
it's just flat terrible course design.
that said, for someone who has probably never broken 90 in your life, you sure love to troll golf threads just to be trolling..