Brian:
Perhaps getting ahead of the game here, but I feel the best Tillinghast holes from the old Blue are on the Yellow and the best Alfred Tull holes are on today's Blue.
Thoughts?
Junior,
I'll concur with you. In fact, I think our day of BSP Red/Yellow was a good day to look at those courses in tandem.
Looking at Historicaerials.com will give a good view of the course from the 1940s (Yellow wasn't built until the late 1950s)
Personally, I think #10, 12, 13, 14 are probably the best of the bunch. Why?
10. Go/no go par 5, with good use of angles, challenging the fairway bunker for position
12. I like the split fairway but no real reward for going right. This hole may have been dumbed down by park maintenance in years past.
13. Good long par 4, close to the bunker is best angle, playing outside leaves a longer shot. I believe there may have been fairway around bunker at one point.
14. Just a pretty hole, bunkering struck me as very impressive, a little different from the standard Bethpage 6-iron/7 iron par 3.
Some of the terrain on the front nine of Yellow is pretty good.
I'll come back with opinion on the Tull holes on Blue. 2 is a good, long, tough par 4, a tighter drive requirement and long iron.