I'll tell you another interesting aspect of that photo above of The Creek's original #10, and that is it does not appear there's any of the berm that is there now that apparently helps protects the fairway (or perhaps more of the course) from the beach and the water along the shoreline. I guess that feature was included in the phenomenally expensive "Water Hole" fix that was accomplished around 1929-30.
I'm really just poking fun at Macd/Raynor because they certainly were wonderful architects and Raynor was obviously a most accomplished engineer but judging from some of the coastal problems they experienced early on with at least two of their courses (or a few of the coastal hole on them) perhaps they should have hired on a really good hydrologist too.
This kind of reminds me of one of the slide shows of one of the architects who came to the original Archipalooza at Pacific Dunes.
He proudly showed one slide after another of a course in Japan (that he must have had to do with) where they built a precipitous hole on the coastline that natural forces just wiped out, and so they rebuilt it, it was destroyed again etc, etc over and over again, one rebuild and destruction after another, maybe up to five or six times.
I think he may've even bragged about the fact that this was running into the millions of dollars.
Well, we all sort of scratched our heads wondering what in the hell was the point of this slide show other than to respect the old adage that it's never a great idea to F... with Mother Nature.
As I recall the architect seemed slightly surprised when that adage was even mentioned.