Rich,
The 3rd is a big green on a 200 yard plus par 3, usually playing in a cross wind.
It has a chipping area and bunker right, and a uphill slope left, where the wind often, but not always, blows your ball. Off that slope, a big ridge, perhaps 3 feet at the green edge, tapering down to six inches near the center runs into the green, not quite at 90 degrees, but at an angle away from the tee.
Depending on where you miss left, many things can result. One is hitting the collar, which will feed your ball down to the pin. However, if you are in the short strip of fescue, you have an option of putting or chipping over the ridge. I putted to 5 foot beyond the hole last summer, thinking that a downhill lie lob wedge could be skulled, but mostly that any flying shot would propel even further off the green than a barely touched putt.
If you are in the tall stuff further left on the green, you have no shot, not, as Seinfeld would say, that there is anything wrong with that. Just the facts.
So, perhaps missing right and chipping into the slope is better, and once the gca gets into thinking about playing somewhere other than the green, I think he has ya.
The course is full of those shots.
Some holes require reall precision. The par 3 13 and 17 are both distance control testers. 17 is oft discussed as a prototype par 3, but 13 is really tough, a longer shot with wind, and the green perched atop a knob. Others let you bounce off a slope with good result. The first two greens are examples, although both have roll offs that can "de-green" both a putt and a chip easily, often more than once!
I also like the second fw - a ridge runner that goes against the typical valley design usually favored.