Tom Doak,
The weather and condition of the greens may have a substantive impact on scoring. The quality of the field has to be taken into consideration as well
It's turned cooler and the long range forecast is for rain or showers all week long.
Hopefully, the forecast will improve.
With respect to # 11 tee, if the entire 7th fairway is shifted right, back to its 1936 configuration, that would take the left side of the fairway further away from the 11th tee.
The tall rough would then be a substantive impediment to going directly for the green since theres a dogleg like configuration that's created by the shifting, and the risk-reward would be magnified dramatically.
It would seem logical to conclude that since the hole played that way circa 1936, it could play the same way in 2006.
And, if the 11th tee was moved back it might remove if from the range of most of those golfers hitting their second shots on # 7, while at the same time bringing the cross bunkers back into play.
Sadly, the wonderful cross bunker feature has been taken out of play on the drive on # 11, unless there's a stiff, cool breeze in your face, which isn't the prevailing wind on that hole.
Probably, one of the worst thing that can happen to a golf course is for a long hitting PGA Tour Pro to visit and play the golf course, because the membership immediately shifts their perspective on the golf course from the membership's game, to the PGA Tour Player's games.