Beverly CC is pretty strong from 15-18. Some very challenging greens as well. 15 at 465yds is both a demanding tee shat and precise approach with a hybrid for most of us. 16 at 445yds is into the prevailing wind to a well bunkered green hidden in a hillside.17 at 200-230 yds to the most severe, smallish green-Nicklaus 4 putted it back in the 1963 Western. 18 is a good par 5 at 595 yds. Requires 3 well placed shots to a well bunkered ,severe green. Could be the best stretch of holes on the course.
For us regular slappers, it's an amazing stretch of golf, but for the fellows that routinely hit it 300 off the tee, I am sorry to say that it doesn't quite measure up anymore. The fairway bunker on the left of 15 would take the driver/3 wood out of a great player's hands, but he'd still have an 8 or 9-iron into the green. And the green is interesting, tilted in deceptive ways, but not hard to hit because it's not at any sort of oblique angle from the fairway. Sixteen is very tough for us slobs, but the fairway bunker is not out far enough to come into play for a big hitter, so that hole would be driver/wedge for most great players. Seventeen is really tough for anybody. Eighteen is 600 yards from the tips, but the dogleg is manageable for a big hitter, so I could see a lot of great players hitting the green in two with a fairway wood or hybrid.
I guess all I'm saying is that technology and player skill has passed Beverly by for the very best players. I still think it would be an excellent site for a US Senior Open or a Senior PGA or a US Women's Open, but I fear the regular tour would just beat it like Warwick Hill's stepchild.