Let me check out 16 in more detail, Garland. I think you have a point.
But, also, let me know on this. For a template to be a template, we don't need to mimic it completey. Rather we need its key elements. I saw this a lot at Yeamans Hall. With this mind frame, for the 6th hole template...dig a bunker, deep and nasty, on the front left. Use that sand/dirt, to build up the green plateau at that angle...and BOOM!...you've captured the greenside elements. No?
You may have captured greenside elements, but you won't have captured the strategy of the hole. I may do things differently than others, but I drive out to the left on 6 and take the huge bunker straight on. Since the elevation difference is so immense, my approach is not far from its apex when it lands, and therefore has little speed to kill with spin or whatever. All I have to do is get the distance right. If I get the direction right, the bonus is birdie. If I don't get the distance right, double bogey, but then that's why I often sign posts ...
Double Bogey
Garland, the play is over the short right fairway bunker so that you line up with the angle of the green. With a short iron in your hand for the second shot (which I think even you can hit straight enough to find the green
) then distance is the only issue. If you go left, then you bring the bunker into play, and stopping the ball with less than a full swing or partially down wind all come into play. Go right, and you shouldn't make worse than bogey, and making a par or birdie is not difficult.
Signed, Par
