Mayday Malone,
If you admit that the green complexes at WFW are superior, world class, then you have to work your way backwards to see where you have to position yourself in order to best approach those greens.
One of WFW's traits are the shoulders in the foot pad of the greens.
Coming at those shoulders from the WRONG angle invites disaster. Coming at those shoulders from the RIGHT angle invites reward.
So, based upon hole locations, relative to the shoulders, slopes and undulations, dictates from where you have to approach the green, which in turn dictates where you have to hit your drive.
That's strategy or tactics, and provides for highly interesting golf.
Just take # 6, that dinky little par 4 that was drivable.
A hole location cut into the extended leftside tongue of that green creates an entirely different strategy from a hole cut into the right center of the green behind the bunker and in front of the creek.
Some still prefer to play their approaches into the tongue, leaving themselves a daunting putt. Others will fly it to that narrow plateau, taking their chances. Some will try to drive as close to the green as possible, others will lay back, favoring one side of the fairway over the other, and then decide how best to approach the green.
In summary, it's anything BUT dull and uninteresting.
You have to look beyond U.S. Open preparations.
You have to view the golf course as the members have played it for the last 50 or more years, not the way it was prepared and played for four days in June, once in a decade.