[Mark Bourgeois]

I think this shows along the bottom the 6th and 7th holes in August 1929. Was 6 green bunkerless?



For comparison, here is roughly the same POV today:





And I believe this shows the 20th green in 1926 -- wow, nice bunkering!

[Paul_Turner]

I think you are right Mark.  From the various plans etc, the 20th green is now not so far out towards the boundary.  The 21st par 3 which you can see part of is NLE, but good pics of that hole have survived.  

[Adam Lawrence]

That 20th is really bizarre. If you consider the current green, which is, as Paul says, much further forward, but also elevated on a big landform, it suggests the original hole must have had a blind approach. Also, the area where the green was is now a total bog. Very odd.

[Mark Bourgeois]

Not sure about blindness but as far as today's bog in the old pic I see lots of sandy, scrubby-looking ground along the line of play and even on the green. A tree directly behind the green appears to be growing out of a bunker. To the left do I see heath?

And that left-side greenside bunker looks fairly deep, yes?

[Adam Lawrence]

It does. But I can tell you from personal experience that it's very, very wet back there now. Weird.

[Jon Wiggett]

Maybe they extracted most of the sand and what is there is what was left. Maybe this is where the material for the big landform came from if it is not original.

Jon

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