Great pictures on this thread, thanks contributors.
This weekend I've been reading Pete Dye's "Bury Me in a Pot Bunker," in which he extols the virtues of Raynor's Camargo and mentions the Redan, 192 yd #15 (pictured in one of Dan's posts above) as being an inspiration to him. He describes the Redan as follows:
"...such a hole normally requires the golfer to hit a long iron or wood shot to a green fortified by a strategically positioned deep bunker. That green is usually set at almost a 45-degree angle from the expected line of flight. The key to this design is the slope of the green. The front portion is elevated and then a severe contour flows down and away. As a result a good portion of the green is blind or semi-blind from the tee."
The design characteristics, he says "challenge the golfer to hit just the right spot for the ball to roll down to a back pin placement."
Note the qualifiers "normally" and "usually" leave some room for design variance, but the slope of the green is identified by Mr. Dye as "key." I still say the 4th at Lawsonia doesn't quite qualify.
He lists Redans among his own designs at Crooked Stick (#13), Ocean Course Kiawah (#14) and Brickyard Crossing (#7).
Here's a pic of the Kiawah hole from Ran's review.
