John Conley --
Thanks for the info. As you might guess, I generally ended up left of Woodhill #2, on (or at the bottom of) that nasty slope.
I haven't played Minikahda since high school, when I really wasn't a good enough player to handle it, and when I didn't know how much I loved golf courses. I spent most of the day in the trees, where, I've found, it's hard to appreciate a course properly. But I do remember, very well, that little No. 3, and I liked it a lot.
Haven't played White Bear. Along with Interlachen, it's at the top of my list of local courses I've never played but yearn to.
The original Hazeltine had an enormous par-3 16 (about 240 yards) over a valley to a green slightly below tee level (if memory serves; it's been 25 years since I played that hole). There was a big ball-catcher of a tree in front of the green; somebody, during the '70 Open, said it was the world's only dogleg par-3. Lousy hole, I thought.
The tee of the old 17 was down the hill, just to the left of where the new 16 green is. It was, I believe, 344 yards from the back tee, a very narrow fairway up the hill to an inverted-saddle landing area, leaving a short-iron to a green guarded on the front by the two little ponds that are still there. (I don't believe they changed the green much when they converted it to a par-3.) During the '70 Open, the pros all played long-irons up to the saddle; I don't remember seeing anyone hit any kind of a wood.
It was an exciting hole. Woods left; woods and a creek right. Treacherous green.
The most memorable shot of that entire Open was Jacklin's in the third round (I think), after he'd pull-hooked his tee shot well into the trees. He proceeded to hit a punch shot through an opening in the trees -- a shot that landed short of the ponds and ran up the little runway between them and onto the green. He made the putt for birdie.