John:
I will point you to a book, in which classic golf hole types are discussed extremely well. It's called "Classic Golf Hole Design", by Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey S. Cornish. I've cited it before in here as I really believe it's invaluable for folks interested in golf course architecture.
In any case, the Eden is discussed in many places in the book. The many attempts at replicating it are described in fine detail on pages 224-231.
If anyone can read that and tell me that this hole at Eagle Ridge is an Eden, well then I really am Aretha Franklin.
Because John, in addition to the things you cited as missing (which are HUGELY necessary to come even close in replication, btw) is some form of the Shell bunker. So while the golf hole at ER does have a decent pot bunker that in a HUGE stretch of imagination could be seen as a Strath replica.. and a little pile on the left that could in a wild stretch be seen as a Hill copy, well... it's missing completely the Shell. Good lord man - they have a WATER HAZARD where the Shell is supposed to be! But most important actually is the complete lack of fall-off at the back. That's what makes an Eden an Eden, I think. Many other holes that try to be Edens account for this somehow, in different ways... it can be a trench bunker at the back, or just a fall off down a bank, or something. The hole at ER has a pitiful little bunker, and continues UP the embankment to the next tee. That alone sounds the death-knell for any Eden replica.
So OK, I will grant you this: I am not doubting that they TRIED to make this an Eden hole. My hope really was though, for their sakes, that you had this wrong and that this wasn't an attempt at an Eden. Because they failed so miserably in the attempt, well... they ought to be ashamed really if this was their intent. Especially because the land available would have allowed for a truly accurate reproduction to be created if they wanted... that was all manufactured as it is!
John, John, John. All one has to do is look at a diagram of the real Eden to see that calling this an "accurate reproduction" is like calling me Aretha Franklin. Yes, one can say it, but no matter how heavy I am and how well I sing, it's not gonna be true.
BTW, playing the two holes is actually the final nail in this. The shot requirements are not even close to similar. At TOC, there is a LOT going on, and we need not get into it here... at ER, the only thing required is that you miss the front right bunker. Par can be made from anywhere else (and even in that bunker isn't THAT bad, as it's not really all that deep and though it has a neat stacked-sod faced, it's really just eye candy). There is a pretty good cant to the green, so I guess another thing is "stay below the hole"... but man even a miss long isn't bad... A miss long at TOC is either death or makes for the stuff of legend... and I have a great story about that if you care to hear it.
Oh well... I actually think #6 at ER is a pretty good hole - one of the best on that course. Of course that's not saying much, and one thing's for sure, it ain't an Eden.
TH