Oh yeah, I eagled that bad boy once. Faded a 4-wood to 3 feet into a leftish pin; there's a little backboard left of the green that will help a long shot, but not a short one. Not that I could hit that shot today.
That day I was only 1 over after 6 from the back tees, and playing well, and I knew that you needed to make a move at #7 and #8. I birdied 7, and after the eagle, I moved to 2 under. The details are sketchy tonight, but I think I hung there with birdies on #11 and #12, and made a 12 foot, curling putt into the back center bowl (+12) on #18 for a 69, and held the course record for a precious 13 months, until Shane Bertsch came out from Denver and shot 67-68 one day. Perhaps the greatest round I've ever played.
On #8, a drawn second shot seems suitable, but is subject to greater uncertainty. The bounces are predictable short and left here, so fade it over the 60 yard bunker into a left pin, if you're in position and have that shot.
There are at least three tough pins on the hole: anywhere in the back right bowl, back left behind the ridge, or best of all, between the round mounds separated by just the right distance in the middle of the green. Lonely men on the prairie, missing home. If the pin's inbetween the mounds, short left in three shots is the way to make par. Everywhere else is a bogey.
I once saw my friend Ryan Beaty drill a low driver over the big bunker, and played wedge in from 150 or so. The wind was light that day. Sean Leary can back that story up. Ryan can really crank it.
I could go on and on, but I saw this hole evolve from rugged Wray dunesland into this photogenic darling which plays as good as it looks. It has to be one of the great modern short fives in golf.