BTW, I LOVE high risk/reward short par 4's like this. Given the hazards, trees, slight dogleg left, the severity of the green and features around it, it presents the golfer a lot of different options in playing the hole. Great hole and great design! Would love to do an in-depth review on other holes that create unique challenges and multiple ways of playing them successfully and unsuccessfully, as to me that's great architecture when the route to get the ball into the cup isn't cut and dry and forces the player to consider their strategy off the tee in lieu of how they want to play their second and or third shots. I don't mean to leave one-shot holes out of this conversation either, as there is strategy aplenty to be found there as well, but I like analyzing great individual holes from perhaps lesser known clubs andcourses that aren't discussed ad nauseaum here and breaking down the various ways to play them successfully and debating what the architect had in mind when designing it. That's the fun of these exercises - especially when there isn't much else to do in the states right now.
On a separate note, what course is this hole found? Have you given that away yet or are you waiting for someone to guess? Based on the type of trees in the images provided I'm going to say geographically it's somewhere in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic or Midwest. There's my guess. LOL!