I just played Springfield CC outside Springfield, OR for the third time. The first time I played it was three years ago just after they put a new #8 and #9 into play.
#8 is a par 5, I believe the scorecard has it at 534 yards from the average player tees. A little over 200 yards out a stream crosses the fairway perpendicular to the line of play. Immediately after that the fairway narrows to at most 15 yards running through a (what looks to me man-made) narrow slot between two hills. From the bottom of the steep slope in front of the green for over 100 yards back was all hazard in an area where two very small seasonal streams ran diagonally across the fairway. Any ball hit into this area was essentially unplayable.
Hitting the ball across the first stream chanced lying on a very steep slope just off the fairway, or in the woods beyond that. Short of the stream gave you one option, lay up to a blind landing area perhaps 125-150 yards short of the green. I hit 5 wood, gap wedge, 5 iron and got a par.
The next year I noted that they had done some mowing in the area short of the green so at least you might find your ball and have a chance of hitting it.
This year I proceeded to play the hole as I remembered it, and was greatly surprised to find that the portion of the hole revealed after the blind second shot had been significantly changed. You could see the newly planted and maintained fairway that had been created through the area short of the green, with only the two small streams remaining as hazard. Since they are close to each other there is area in front of the green to play to as well as much new area short of the first stream to play to.
I know the members had a lot of disagreement about the hole, and I believe they took it upon themselves to make the changes.