I feel bad to have been unable to recognize a hole I have played from that picture.
Just when I was begining to gain confidence in your powers of observation
Due to the bunker at the front-right part of the green, wouldn't being farther right than the right part of the current fairway be a worse angle than is now afforded?
NO
The hole doglegs to the right, so the slope of the fairway is actually a help.
The hole is NOT a dogleg
Knowing what hole it is now, I have no objection to it whatsoever. Furthermore, my view that that bunker on the left is meant to show the player where to go is stronger than it was previously.
As I recall, the hole is much more open now than it was in the pictures provided.
Looking at Google Maps, it seems that moving that fairway to the right by any substantial distance would bring the 11th green into play off the tee.
Eliminating the intruding bulge of rough on the right side would not bring the 11th green into play off the tee.
Now you've completely eroded any confidence that I had in your powers of observation.
The fairway/rough line at the crest would remain.
It's the intrusion of the right side rough beyond the crest that's the problem.
Patrick--
I'm sorry to let you down. When I played Mountain Ridge last May, there were a lot fewer trees than in the photo. I guess it's a testament to the way a good tree removal program can change the aesthetics of a course.
I took a screenshot of Mountain Ridge's second hole (with Google Maps) and drew some lines stemming from the orientation of those crisply rectangular tee boxes.
It does seem like there are a few yards down the right that could be maintained as fairway, without getting too close to the 11th green. Go about five yards right of the right edge of the #2 fairway and you still have another 35 yards to the left edge of #11 green.
The "bulge" on the right side of the fairway is certainly visible, but given the orientation of the tees (accentuated by some parallel lines extended from the sides of the tee boxes), I'm sure you can see why I described this hole as a dogleg - albeit a slight one.
Looking at the rest of the par fours and fives on the course on Google Maps, it appears eight of them (1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13) have tee complexes that line up more directly at the green than those at the second hole. Again, tee box orientation is not the final determining factor for "dogleggedness," nor is that particularly important, but it does seem that #2 is less straightaway than most of the other par fours and fives on the course.
Also, the print that Bill provided is marked "Hole 11." When were the nines switched?
Out of curiosity, what does the "Hole 2" field drawing look like? I ask for two reasons. First, the current 11th hole plays arrow-straightaway like the "Hole 11" drawing depicts. Second, there's no left-side aiming bunker on the "Hole 11" drawing like there is on the current second hole. Of course, on the "Hole 11" drawing there appears to be a complete cross bunker short of the fairway, which doesn't exist on either the current second or 11th holes, though the current 11th does have that pond fronting the fairway.