I played this hole as a 8 year old and as a 18 year old, which is to say that I wasn't thinking much about strategy at the time. Furthermore, I got around Ravisloe without much thought, not because Rav didn't demand it, but because I had played it so much that I had already (correctly or incorrectly), decided on what the best play was. From the tips (which were added during the renovation), it's 210 to carry that bunker. When I was younger, anything with a little momentum rolled right through that trap and into the rough (not much sand or lip). The renovation added some grass islands, sand and a lip. It became a more formidable hazard but I was older and could usually carry it. I guess what I'm saying is that I've never consciously layed up or went left of the bunker. So to me, even if I did catch it a little thin and ended up in the bunker, it wasn't the result of a decision.
For the approach, there is a pretty sizable bailout area right of the green and no feature of the green that makes that bailout area a particularly scary place to be. So I guess it'd be a strategy to take advantage of the bailout area, but I don't think that it's anything special. I've hit every chip into that green a bajillion times, so again, it wasn't like it mattered where I was because I knew what I had to do.
I remember my dad and I emptying our bags, trying to get from the ~40yard bunker onto the green. Out of 20 balls, we put one on the green and 3 onto the street. I've hit a drive from the 8th tee box into the water hazard on 7. I know that it can be a dangerous hole, but I also know that looking at something for 15 years might, instead of allowing a person to see more through experience, actually limit what a person sees precisely because of that experience. I never, ever, ever messed around with the 40 yard bunker because I knew I couldn't get out! I always tried to blast it over the bunker off the tee because I knew I could find the bailout area. It's hard to see the hole through different eyes.