Garland:
I like the idea of a par 5 quarry hole with a green perched on top, requiring either a jumbo 2nd or layup near the base, with a (presumably) blindish 3rd to the green. Something like that was pictured in a recent thread about lesser-known Maxwell courses, where a large rock outcropping served a similar purposes. (My good friend RJ Daley I think posted the picture, or called attention to it, and didn't seem to care for it that much, but from what I could tell from the picture, it looked like a pretty neat hole with some interesting strategic choices.)
The 15th at Boat of Garten is the par 4 I referenced, and it's a pretty tight site in general. Moving the tee too far back would result in taking a dip in the River Spey, which runs alongside the edge of the course. When I played it several years ago, the very deep pit (the rumoured quarry) was mown at fairway length, but the banks leading into and out of the pit were kept at traditional rough length (and this is a course deep in the Scottish Highlands, so it's not linksy firm-and-fast; the rough is tough to get out of). The pitch shot from the bottom/middle of the pit is only about 110 yards, but it's completely blind (although you can see the greensite and flag position when approaching the pit from the fairway). The risk in going for the far fairway -- carrying the quarry pit -- is that if you're short, your ball is unlikely to end up at the bottom of the pit, but instead on the far side of the slope leading out of the pit, leading to: a lie in the rough, a very awkward uphill stance, and (depending on how down the slope the ball descends) a blind or semi-blind pitch. Par from that position would be a good score, with bogey a definite possibility. Carrying the quarry, however, leads to a simple pitch of 65-90 yards, to a green with no bunkers and very little going on around the greensite, i.e., a real birdie opportunity.
To me, position A is carrying the quarry followed by a simple pitch. If you can't pull that off, position B is either the bottom of the pit, or playing short of the pit and leaving a shot of 135-150 yards -- one is shorter and blind, the other longer and readily apparent, and it just depends on your comfort level. The worst position is the shot that falls slightly short of position A (the far slope leading out of the pit) -- which to me makes it a very good risk/reward hole, because the greatest risk is very close to the greatest reward, and the safe options are pretty obvious and don't require a great deal of skill to accomplish.