Dan:
At the moment I can't exactly figure out how to play Shinnecock ending on #16 but the way you played it by joining up the way you did with those other players is very intereresting.
Doing it that way turns the nines in par 34 front, par 36 back the exact opposite of Merion and even more unusual the two par fives fall the same way as the two par 5s at Merion (a hole apart separated by a par 3) and in the same place on the back nine as Merion's are on the front nine!!
Very interesting! The other slight benefit is #9 then becomes #18 and next to the clubhouse as it once was before Flynn and even was before he flipped his nines on the present course!
It's also interesting the way you did it how the 9th hole becomes #13 (next to the clubhouse) and #14 becomes #10!