Archie,
In addition to skill, smarts and discipline, perhaps confidence is the real key to a good golf shot. Which is what Pete Dye was really trying to attack with his designs aimed at pros, which hardly seems strategic at all!
I have worked with tour pros, and learned that only a few really work the ball both directions, high, low, etc. If you are consistent and long enough, most pros end up figuring out that playing the same shot is more consistently rewarding than playing a different one to fit the situation. Its sort of like making your go to dish when having friends over for dinner, rather than trying something new and exotic, which might be better, but.......
According to the pros I know/knew, the only real great player who would hit a variety of shots was Faldo. Most others hit the draw or fade almost consistently.
Notah Begay III and Jim Colbert both felt they had to hit the shot that fit the circumstance to up their chances of success, because they were less physically gifted than Norman, etc. That said, on really critical shots, they said they went with the shot that worked best for them.
Lanny Wadkins related a similar tale - when he was playing well he would hit any shot he felt required. Once, he took me hole by hole through how he played Riviera in his prime, and it included what he said was the widest variety of shot requirements he had ever known. But, when not playing well, he went to the go to shot.
Strategic choice is developed not standing on the tee or looking at the yardage book, but over the long term, and even short term (i.e., how well up did while warming up) It is as much confidence and talent related as architecture related.
All of that makes it very hard for an architect to assume almost anything when trying to design strategy!