Mike Cirba,
Your graphics are great, your logic and conclusions,
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Ah, Patrick...you're back again, just like the creature in a sequel that keeps coming back to life. Is it just coincidence that it's Halloween today??
I figured you might return, so rather than debate endlessly, I'll let you argue with the following three chaps. Like Sean Arble, perhaps then you'll argue that you've come up with your own, restrictive definition of a redan that's completey different from conventional thinking, but I think I'd leave it to these experts.
CB Macdonald - "Take a narrow tableland, tilt it a little from right to left, dig a deep bunker on the front side, approach it diagonally, and
you have a redan. At North Berwick, of course, all these things were done in the beginning by nature. The only original thing that the greenkeeper did was to place the tee so that the shot had to be played cornerwise, so to speak, instead of directly down the tableland".
Geoff Shackelford - "In most cases, the Redan presents an angled green that slopes slightly away from the player, with a bunker in front of the green and a
nice bit of helping contour on the approach designed to give the golfer options in attacking the hole. The player who plays straight for the flagstick had better hit a high, precise shot. The less bold player can stay away from the fronting greenside bunker and run his shot into the green,
using the contour to help kick the ball onto the surface. Then there are the options somewhere in between the boldest shot and the safe lay-up."
George Bahto - "What more accurate way to describe a 'Redan' than Macdonald's own words? 'Take a narrow tableland, tilt it a little from right to left, dig a deep bunker on the front side, approach it diagonally, and you have a Redan.' Bear in mind when Macdonald says 'tilt,' he means it. At National, hole #4 falls over five feet from front to rear. Redans are usually around 190 yards (a formidable distance in the early days of golf) with numerous strategic options depending on wind direction and course conditions: Fly it to the green if you are able, lay-up and chip on hoping to make three,
hit a running shot at the banked area fronting the green or even play left of the Redan bunker hoping for a better approach angle (not recommended!). Behind the green are usually deep sand pits to catch aggressive play."
