I take that back, on a fairly early aerial I'm not sure that the fairway over the left bunker on #2 did not extend up in there over that bunker at least for a ways and perhaps even connected to the right side of #5 fairway. However, don't forget that #2 green is not the original and the present one really does orient distinctly to the right and right at OB.
But I am sure that the fairway on #14 at one time extended right to the road. I also know that at one point Flynn recommended putting a bunker in on #14 (we have a drawing of it) that may've had fairway left of it. I would love to see that done today and fairway restored all the way to the road. That would theoretically give players a distinct option of basically going sort of straight at the hole and left of that bunker risking the road or going out to the right portion of the fairway and right of that bunker (and probably even right over it).
Having said all that I certainly am aware that the tree situation along Golf Club Road is vastly different than it was back then and that would probably make a tee shot risking the road pretty hard to do unless the player hit a pretty good draw. I believe those trees are on the other side of the road so I doubt they even belong to Merion.
But if you guys like that idea maybe we could tell the people who live on the other side of the road (who own those trees) that we have determined that the road was not actually build where Richard Francis and Horatio Gates Lloyd agreed that it should be build during that late night discussion back in 1911, so therefore Merion feels they have every good right and reason to take down some of their 95 year old trees.
