To me, Binks Forest shows how hard it is to make an interesting golf course when the fairway corridors are extremely narrow. I found the Bates bunker scheme to actually be very well thought out -- fairway bunkers regularly protected the ideal lines into angled greens, centreline bunkers created potential decisions and bunkers set into (slight) rises in the fairway created interesting/confusing visuals -- but the corridors are just too damned narrow for any of that to matter.
When the fairway is narrow and there is hazard on one side and a bunker on the other, strategy is thrown out the window.
The approach to the 1st with foreshortening bunker:
The very difficult par-3 3rd where an angled green and a front-to-back tilt make club selection a problem:
The 4th has strategic bunkering... but the corridor is so narrow that strategy is a non-issue:
The approach to the 4th is best from near the bunkering:
The back-nine starts with a series of very narrow tree-lined holes:
Excellent use of an angled hazard on the second shot at the par-5 12th:
