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A note on the quarry rim as pertains to the 12th hole: The original Tilly back tee was located off of the back-right corner of #11 green and so presented a heroic tee shot over the quarry and towards the fairway bunker. The word is that the Flynn renovation repositioned the tee to it's current spot in response to member complaints that the original was too difficult. The Foster plan would restore this unique feature.
Gib and I talked about "the Tillie tee" offline. Although always referred to at Cricket as "the Tillie tee" it appears that it is actually a Flynn tee.
The restoration plan by Keith Foster does contemplate restortion of this tee and the quarry carry for the back tees only. (the #3 green for Militia Hill is below, hence only for the back tees). With this change and the restoration of the Hell's Half Acre on #4, the par 5's will be dramatically different.
From my copy of "The Nature Faker: William S. Flynn, Golf Course Architect" (get your copy here,
http://golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,47440.0.html ):
"Hole 12 (current hole 12)
494 yards, par 5
“On the twelfth the line of play has been laid across the quarry instead of around it.
This has been accomplished by setting a new tee to the left of the old and by felling the
trees that skirted the quarry. Two bunkers discourage play over the old fairway. The
length of this hole has been reduced from 523 to 494 yards.”
A June 30, 1930 scorecard from the Ralph Kennedy collection at the USGA shows that the
hole was in fact redesigned, as the yardage for the hole was 494 yards. The pre-existing
two bunkers were combined into one large bunker as can be seen in the 1938 aerial
photograph and remains this way today. The bold line from the tee would be down the
right side with a draw starting over the quarry. The green plan on the hole drawing is
suggestive that Flynn redesigned the green as well."