Here are my photos from our wonderful day. They show the FW from the right side and show the notch of contour appoximately where the carry or gull wing old bunkers would have been. I think that with Mike's photo, one can see that the planting of the trees up the left side took away the ground. The ODGs, liked to play the hillside ground bounces. With the placement of the gull wing bunkers left, and the placement of the bunkers again challenging the left approach, which you see in the other photo I posted, you see that L&M wanted you to use that hillside, and if you didn't get it right, you would bound down to the gull wings. Of course the trees up the left approach of the green need to be paired back as well inorder to make the challenge of the hillside right shot work as the rewarded side. It was a bit of the line of charm sort of flirtation, I think.
I can't figure why the club did the whole tree line thing. Perhaps to get more visual seperation and hole integrity with the adjoining 9th. But, I don't think they needed that many trees. I'd say they could still leave a few selected trees in the separation, but get the FW up in there to use the hillside, put the bunkers back in, and bring the right low FW back up to the left. You'd have something of a more favored shaped shot option off the tee rather than just hit it straight into the notch. And, the shape, depending on distance you hit it, might be variable Lt to Rt or Rt to Lt, also depending on wind that day. Another words, down wind and long, a Lt to Rt really challenging the Lt hillside, to get a turbo boast possibly past the gull wings, and on a calm or into wind day, a Rt to Lt to hold the hillside to favor the left side approach corridor.
I'd say, sympathetic restore/remodell.