OK, taking a mulligan on #8. Did a lot of remeasuring. Overlaid the Vanity Fair drawing and the plastacine with eachother and over the map of the hole in the designer. I traced guidelines exactly over the cross bunker, the horseshoe indentation, the valley before the green, the fairway edges, and everything else that was contained. Then did a lot of shaping to try to get different views to look like the pics (note that the angles are different with the true back tee though, compared to the tee in most pics right by the #7 green. I also tried harder to generate the feel of the waste areas. That is time consuming work, but will tie everything together eventually. Also, I scrapped the big build up on the right side of the green, because I'm now assuming that it wasn't the original hole and was a futile attempt to block the sea.
* I forgot to remove the beach grass behind the green before I took the pics. I don't think that was there once the building went in.
Here is the #8, v2.
From the tee, the cross bunker is barely visible the way that I have it. From this elevated view, you can see it.
View from just short of the cross bunker. You can see my attempt at building in the horseshoe swale just over the trap.
The valley
This one shows what I was trying to do with the horseshoe. Very geometric from the air, but not the ground view.
And finally a view from the beach after a very weak slice. Threw a beached rowboat in for fun to see what it would look like. Inspired by the pic of the guy hitting off the boat wreckage in the annual tourney they played there.