Mike Jansen:
Your host did not give you the entire story.
Jim Urbina and I built the new 13th, 14th and 15th holes about five years ago. Before that, the holes were as your host described. However, BEFORE THAT, when Tillinghast designed the holes, they were almost exactly as we restored them ... they were changed to your host's version in the late 1940's by a local pro / architect, Harold Sampson, when they were starting to build the highway at the top end of the course and the members were afraid the highway would ruin the Tillinghast holes.
In fact, we found that we could restore the three holes, except for shortening the 15th green a bit because it would have been very close to the flyover of the highway. And when the trees started dying on the dogleg holes, that's what I suggested they do. It was extremely controversial for a club like that, because few of the members had known anything but Harold Sampson's version, and they accepted that to be the "real" golf course, even though it was demonstrably NOT Tillinghast's design. In fact, there are some members who have still not gotten over the change, and some of the club's board members at the time who are still getting a tremendous amount of grief over letting me make the change.
I had no idea the move would be that controversial or that people would still be upset years later. I thought Sampson's three holes really weren't very good and that they plainly didn't fit with the rest of the course ... it was very easy to hit a tree with either your tee shot on #13, or your approach on #14, where a tree overhung the left front of the green. As Kevin Reilly mentions, we did fix the interim 15th hole a bit when we redid the greens +/- ten years back and they didn't want to consider the re-routing.