Lots of interesting thoughts shared here and no doubt certain favorite sons are given some slack on this site. I cant imagine Pat stirring the pot , can you?
But, if you look at this hole and its wild and wooly appearance , and were told it was built by Rees, most afficionado's of his style wouldn't believe it !
Archie,
If you helicoptered me in and told me a modern signature built this hole, I don't think I would question it just from looking 190 yards away.
and I doubt they would've even considered other routing choices as Tom did.
However; I would immediately question you if I played the other 17 holes and you told me it was modern signature that designed them all.
I think it's very important to
1. accept the routing challenges that were already in place with the topogrophy in place and the challenge of 2 courses
2.Appreciate the scale(everything on the hole is big, including the green), beauty and drama of that area of the property
3.As Tom points out, evaluate it in the context of the par 3 two holes behind it, and the par 3 three holes ahead of it
4.Also, As Tom points out, evaluating the long walk in the context of how few others there are
I do have questions about the walk from 10 green to 11 tee
Not remembering the topography, would it not have been possible to move 10 tee and 10 green more forward to shorten the walk from 10 green to 11?