This is a bit of a blast from the past.
A couple of weeks ago I was down at Pine Needles. The 4th is an uphill par 4. Playing the course for maybe the 10th time, I hit a decent drive into the right rough, which is pretty benign at this time of year. There was (is) a bunker directly in my line to the green. Looking up the hill the bunker looked like it ran right up to the green, when in fact it's about 10-yards short of the green. Even though I knew the distance to the pin, the bunker created some doubt and influenced the way I hit the shot, which came up about 5 yards short of the green.
Maybe if I played the course all the time I would make the adjustment, but deception clearly worked in this case despite the fact that I have some familiarity with the hole.