Pat -
Whether or not the pros found it interesting or challenging is entirely irrelevant to whether I find it boring.
The 65-75 yard differential makes it easy to accomodate the everyday golfer with the professional, and the 20 yard differential also makes it easier to accomodate the higher skilled amateur player. from the back tees the bunker would effectively the bunker would start at ~ 230 on the right side, and move diagonally up to ~ 280 on the left, requiring a carry on the left side of roughly 250-255 on the right side, and correspondingly throughout. Subtract 65 and 20 yards from these numbers and I think you will find that it is reasonable for the everyday player, etc.
As for citing other holes, the strategy is not terribly dissimilar to #8 at another course (hint: it rhymes with National Golf Links of America), a hole which, until this today, I thought you loved.
I'm merely musing on changes I think would make the hole more interesting. It's fanciful, sort of like positing that CBM actually intended NGLA's current 18 hole arrangement, even when his own writings indicate otherwise. There's no harm in it, and I am certainly not advocating the changes or insisting that I am right.
Lighten up, you're wound up like yo-yo.