I disagree there's nothing to think about on that first tee ball at North Berwick.
You have to hit a solid mid or long iron on your first shot of the day.
With no driving range or warm up facility.
The closer you are to the nasty deep rough and beach down the right, the more visible and better angle for your second shot up the hill. Therefore you either play into a narrow and tight area off the tee and set up a reasonably easy 9 iron or PW, or you bail left and then have a much more blind second from a little farther back, toward the trouble to the right of the green. You haven't lived until you have tried to recover from the rocks and rough down there.
I guess I am capable of overthinking any situation, but I don't think #1 at North Berwick is a throwaway starting hole at all.
While you are up on the green, you can also walk up toward the 17th green off to the left and think about the old days when those greens were connected as a double green!