Pat asked: "Are you referencing the tee behind and slightly right of # 16 green, one that has a clearly visible foot pad ?"
No Pat .... this tee is way down near the fairway on the right, not far from where the cartpath meets the fairway - it's only about 265-270 from the green from there. It may have been the original 3rd tee for the hole but from there a long hitter would be faced with the problem of hitting his drive over the sand hill on the fly and of course it wouldn't hold the green. However, that LOP puts a whole new perspective on the existing bunkering and offers (sans sandhill, as an example) at least 4 ligit options of play.
Until recently it was covered with small saplings and brush.
Really quite interesting.
There is a distinct possibility a new tee could be added along that line of play at a length that would create all those options. Lots of thought needed for the “proper length” :-)
I really would love to build this hole at "proper" yardage someplace.
From Patrick: "And, has there been any further discussion on the alternate tee on # 13, to the left rear of # 12 green ?"
Bill and I sort of "found" that tee about 2-3 years ago when we were discussing fairway expansion around the left side of 12-green with the expansion coming back to 12-green at the point where that (sort-of) “tee” meets the green.
No I don't see that happening as a permanent tee, although that is "one great" line of play to 13-green. Pat, I think there would be too many problems for the club using that tee permanently.
My suggestion would to just tee it up there, if agreed to by the players, occasionally, during a match or casual round.
Also, the long landing strip 2nd tee (really ugly thing, it was) has been split and re-aligned to a better LOP. They are trying .... well, really more than trying, .... to have carts drive around the LEFT side of #1-green to get to 2-tee.
Reasoning is two-fold:
1. to reduce/eliminate carts driving to the regular 2-tee.
2. the plan is to expand the fairway to the right of the 1st green (up over the top of the hill and that line is actually rust to the right of the bunker in the face of the hill, short of the green. That might be a little hard to envision without being there, but its very interesting.