The Evangelist of Golf included the courses I thought were the courses Macdonald was most involved in (sort of) - (hard to define exactly).
The representation of the “Long” hole on these courses and the associated strategy follows:
Piping Rock:
Long was hole 6th, originally 526-yds with an interesting set of diagonal cross bunkering ranging on average, 200-yds from the green but still in the 2nd shot landing area of the day (1911-1912). However there was an additional bunker that covered one-half the right side of the fairway further down range that left the golfer some 125-yds to the green if he either skirted the 2nd bunker or just carried it.
This is a very good example of a Long for its day.
Next was Sleepy Hollow (1911-1914)
On the original CBM course there was only one hole over 500-yds, the original 16th hole, which is the shortened version of today’s 17-th hole (the original tee was much further back than today’s version and was on some of the land the course sold off).
There is no surviving information on the bunkering on that hole so this example cannot be used.
St. Louis:
Here again there was only one original hole over 500-yds, the 9th, called Ladue. The hole was 513-yds with a diagonal “deep hollow” varying between 160 and about 115-yds, so the remaining yardage if you carried the hollow, varied from some 100 to 140 yards to the green.
The distance to the hollow was about 400-yds from the tee - again the 2nd shot landing area but a “hollow;” not a representation of Hell Bunker but good.
Pretty good example for its day.
Old White at the Greenbrier:
Originally the Long was hole 10th at 525-yds. There were 4 fairway bunkers down range but a bit wide, two of which pinched in the second shot landing area but left a fair amount of room between them and there was another fairway bunker down range on the right.
Pretty good example of “boogering-up” the second shot and this was similar to the setup at Piping Rock (see above for basic yardages).
Lido was next - 565-yds, and as I stated, this example is just about perfect for the day.
Nearly a full (non-diagonal, by the way) single crossbunker at was downrange for the second shot carry or lay up, and if you carried it you were left with the requisite 125 (or so) yards to the green. Lay up and you were at about 150-160.
pp. 180 in my book shows a interesting comparison of this hole (17-Lido) and 14-St. Andrews.
Shinnecock (Macdonald course) - 1960 thru 1930:
The Long was the original 16th hole with again a diagonal crossbunker set (of 3?) at 150 from the green.
Ocean Links - Newport, RI:
Long was 545-yds, pinched in bunkering half way to the hole but a bit further, close to the green were two bunkers, one on each side of the fairway. These were quite a bit off the line of play (these two bunkers look to me a lot like bunkering used on the “Narrow” holes).
Nice bunkers but not in the second shot landing area.
Also the super wealthy T. Suffern Tailer may have had a hand in some bunkering on the course.
Links (1918-1919) North Hills, Long Island:
At 498-yds, the 14th (same # as St Andrews) was the longest hole on the course.
The hole used natural land forms with just a bunker at the corner of the right-hand dog-leg but this was in the 185-yds from the green area. I do not know the topo of the course so what was in the 2nd shot area is not know to me but perhaps Tom Doak can recall.
Unless there was a main topographical feature in that critical area this was probably a good hole but not a better example f what we are speaking about.
“a par 5 that went out with the first two shots, then angled, dog-leg right with a short 3rd, sort of a "fish-hook" off to the right on the 3rd - problems at the corner of the dog-leg prevented players to go at the green with their second shot”
Womens National Golf & Tennis Club:
The longest hole on the course was the 15th but only had right side bunkering thru much of the hole but there seemed to be a “feature” of sorts pinching in the critical area in question.
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Gibson Island Club
The Longest hole on the course was just 409-yds so the strategy is a non factor.
Creek
The 7th hole was built at 521 yds, no second shot bunkering to contend with but there was left side, sightly off fairway bunkering about half way to the green.
Deepdale (William Kissam Vanderbilt course) 1925-1927 (one of Mr, Macdonald’s close friends)
At 540-yds the 16th was named Longacre, again the longest hole on the course, had a sizable pinched in area on the left side of the second shot area that certainly created havoc. It seems in the “correct” spot leaving a 1256-yds shot in to the green.
Mid Ocean:
The second hole was built at 440 and called Long.
Unfortunately we have not come up with any definitive plan surviving, at least to date, so I do not have sufficient information on that hole.
Yale University course:
Perhaps even a worse example of the Long than the 9th at NGLA is the 16th at Yale, certainly the worse hole on that great course.
Yale had few fairway bunkers and there was none on this hole.
That’s about it.