The backstory on the photos, which I've reported before, is that I only barely got permission to take them before the course was done in. When I'd visited the first time, the superintendent, Benny Zukowsky, took me around but only if I put my camera away. "Mr. Macdonald did not think pictures did justice to the course," he told me, so they never let anyone take pictures of it. He had been superintendent for 57 years at the time the course closed (I think that was 1929-1986
), so he knew Mr. Macdonald fairly well.
Anyway, I was working on the restoration of Piping Rock for Mr. Dye when I heard the course was closing, from Jim Albus who was the club pro there at the time. When I told him I would like to take some pictures of it before it went under, he got permission from one of the living members, who was also a member of Piping Rock. My pics are actually from two separate visits, one of which was to play the course with P.B. Dye and his friend Steve Lucciola. I'm sure glad I got the pics before it was too late ... that Google Earth aerial posted by Sven is heartbreaking.
Re: the pictures: #1 was a Leven hole, with a fairway bunker on the left that you had to carry if you wanted to avoid coming in over the mounds at the right front of the green. The mound complex was more pronounced than on any Macdonald course I can think of. It was a good opener, not too tough but it made you do something right.
#2 was an Alps hole, I guess ... there was the deep trench of bunkers in front of the green as a cross hazard, and I'd forgotten about the first set of cross bunkers (see the aerial above, #2 is top middle, running from right to left) which were just before the fairway started down toward the green, so the hole was semi-blind or completely blind depending on the length of the drive.
In the last picture, just to the left of the hut is the tee for the third hole, the Biarritz, which played back in the opposite direction.