Doug, I think they don't use the back tees or even put markers on them for ordinary play so as to speed things up. I thought there might be one that long, but I couldn't remember.
From there it was an absolute beast when left was over the cliff and right was almost guaranteed to be in a bush. Short was not an option originally either, but I think they put some more grass down there also.
When we first went there to do the course rating, they wanted to mark the cliff as OB, but we convinced them that it should be a lateral water hazard.