OK, your helpful playing hint here...
Tom's 2nd photo really highlights the brilliance of this green complex (which makes the hole), yet it is the tee shot that "sells the calendars"...
This green complex is really "made" by the interplay between the continuation of the large dune high right of the green down to the front right of the green and the even more subtle diagonal "fold" in the fairway 20-25 yds short of that prominent slope.
A shot with any significant loft that hits at the bottom of that "valley" or on the upslope of the larger dune will NOT reliably kick down onto the green. Even lower trajectory shots can bite up in that bowl, leaving an incredibly challenging chip, pitch or long putt up and over the slope down onto the green.
This is complicated by the back half of the green falling away to the back, from which recoveries are not so easy..
A low running shot almost needs to hit in front of the fairway fold and run hot to get to the green--it also works to hit on the back side of the fairway fold and shoot forward onto the green. A shot hitting the back of the larger slope will almost always kick long and right...
This is without question a hole where the bold line of the tee is dramatically rewarded, mostly because a more lofted club can be played into the green. Any tee shot to the right fairway makes par a very, very good result...
The tee shot gets the heart racing, but the action really heats up around the green...
And to answer the inevitable, on those rare occasions when we get the unexpected zephyr here, it typically will be against and from left-right, furthering the challenge of smoking one down the left side fairway...
BTW, there is a reasonable chance that the centerline fairway bunker may look very different by August, but I haven't been out there in the last weeks, so I can't confirm that...