thanks gentlemen for all your courteous replies to my rantings. Yes Jim Kennedy to your query , the 8th is goofy . One day we got into some lively discussion about it in the grill room there. My playing partners were both members and the proprietor was in the house so did my best to be courteous ( by the way I really enjoy playing the golf course with my friends despite my dissaffection for the 8th )
The owner (Roger Hanson) was nearby when someone baited me as to my newest LOL opinion on #8. Trying to low key the conversation , knowing Roger was within earshot, I deferentially and quietly said that although Coore and Crenshaw are two of my favorite architects now working , I just don't "get" the hole. By now I was well into my fourth or fifth pint of draft lager, which by the way was quite cold!
Another local golf "guru" sensing that he had me in a tenuous position asked me if I birdied my favorite hole
? I answered no . Really he grinned at which time one of my playing partners dogged me and told him I knocked it on and three jacked it. Laugihing , the other antagonist said see "risk reward baby" and the game was on.
But of course I reminded him that two out of three of my buddies three putted also , and the third made a ten footer for par after being twenty feet in two. The pin that day was back center left in a really nasty spot . There was almost no chance to get your first putt close unless you were under the hole on the left , and even then it was really hard. to keep it on the shelf. Sooooooooooo, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Some greens are overdone.