Adam:
I have never really thought about Raynor deliberately trying to put two fairways close together, but it's true he did on several occasions: the proximity of the ninth and eighteenth is a problem at Shoreacres, too.
At Camargo the tenth fairway was much wider to start with [as were most of the others] and did run much further over to the left. In fact there is a little bunker on the left that we moved to the right so it would be somewhat in play ... originally that bunker was about twenty yards to the left of where it is today, and the fairways for #9 and #10 extended right over to it! But, they don't want to mow that much fairway anymore.
It's interesting to hear the perspective of how exclusive Camargo is. Pete Dye first sent me there in 1984 and they have always been just great to me and always let me go out and play if I've got time ... Mr. Plummer was responsible for that, he knew I'd love the course that much more once I played it a few times.
Evan:
You will be glad to know I once heard Pete Dye say that Camargo had the best set of par-3 holes in golf. However, you'll also be interested that some of those hole locations they use for the qualifier were right at the edges of the greens the first time I saw the course ... we have extended most of the greens 10 or sometimes 15 feet to either side to get them back to their original size.
It's a cool course but like Chicago Golf, it's really not too hard unless they dry out the greens and use the toughest hole locations, and I think that's what the designers intended.