Who says the Search function doesn't work? Here is a thread from 2002 on this topic:
http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forums2/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=1897;start=msg36668#msg36668This thread includes the following statement regarding Pine Valley #9 from TE Paul:
"How and why Pine Valley's right #9 green came into being is unusual and interesting.
The original (Crump's #9 left) was a green whose surface contour and slope were not working well for play and the membership. The original left green was longer than the present left with a very long upslope (considered mostly unpinnable) with a very shallow back tier. It was considered a very severe two tier green. It was apparenly difficult to get balls up the front upslope and hold them on the back tier and balls were running over the green down towards the 18th fairway. Good players apparently thought it best to lay up in front of the green and play for a five.
C.H. Alison recommended and designed the right alternate green as he claimed it was more cost effective than redesigning and rebuilding the original and also that the membership could have the convenience of a green in play when the right alternate was being built.
This recommendation was approved but apparently the right alternate was constructed later to Alison's design specs probably by William Flynn and George Thomas!
Eventually the left original was redesigned and rebuilt by Perry Maxwell who also redesigned and rebuilt original left #8 but not to Alison's approved plans but to his own!
Interestingly, Crump was the first to recognize that the original left #9 was not working well and had very definite plans to rework the whole hole adding considerable length to it, making it play as a bit of a dogleg left and to rebuilt the severe green.
One wonders how he could have added considerable length to #9. That may have been contingent on his plans to make #7 play more as a double dogleg hole (certainly using Hell's half acre) but playing the second shot well out to the right with the left side of the landing area over Hell's Half acre turned into more rough ground and wasty bunkering. The ideal area then to approach the green on #7 would have been well out to the right and might explain the right orientation of the present green better."
There's more interesting stuff on this old thread so read on...