Look carefully at the two bunkers between holes #1 and #8 - they are right across from one another.
Obviously the right side of #1 green was one bunker - but that was OK in the early years for the course did not get a lot of play and as play increased a “walk-way” was made. I have no problem with that you see this happening on all the old courses ....... why
? I think a lot of this had to do with the advent of manicured bunkers. We’ve all seen the famous picture of Hell’s Bunker (14th St Andrews) - the player is in the bunker, his caddie is standing in the bunker and if I remember correctly, so was his opponent and his caddie.
So with the advent of groomed bunkers the players were not going to walk around so they climbed the bank (duh” a problem of today also) - hence the walkway. I have a lot of old photos of Raynor Short holes where the original bunker, in some cases, went 270-degrees around the green. Walk ways were created for most of those holes also.
But back to the two greenside bunkers - one on the right of hole, the other to the right of hole-8: those bunkers were huge! - lost years ago, not recently. I was told that when you were in the bunker on the right side of 1-green, when the berm was still there, you often could not see the flat (unless you were Mike Sweeney - hah).
The real focus should be on the left-front greenside bunker - this the representation of a “road hole pot bunker”
- it was huge, had a very interesting shape and was jammed in close to the green, as it should be. Of course, with proper greenside expansion it would be “close to the green.”
I’ll quote Charles Banks who was there helping with the construction, was an intelligent fellow - a Yale grad, who became Raynor’s partner in short order. This quote is from an article written by Charles (very formal, huh? - can’t stand the ‘steamshovel’ thing personally).
Hole 1:
The greens at Yale are so huge there can easily be two different styles of greens on the same hole.
The green (hole 1) is a huge double green of the Road Hole type on the and a Punchbowl on the left set into a bit of a hollow bunkered left and right.
The play to the left half of the green is over a deep bunker about the front and left side of the green,
requiring a lofted ball.
The play to the right half of the green is a direct shot to the high shoulder of the approach with a kick in to
the green.
The right half of the green has a deep bunker all along the right side but a clear approach permitting a run
up.
It is evident that the play of the second shot is considerably dependent upon the placing of the first shot."