Gene Sarazen's autobiography has a long hole by hole description of Prince's, where he won the 1932 Open Championship with an ancient caddy. It's a great story. There was one par 5 with a blind second shot where Sarazen made at least one eagle and a couple of birdies, whacking his brassie over the dune.
Yeah that was the old 11th I think. It now plays different and the blind carry is gone. I found this old drawing of the teeshot. The outline of those bunkers still exist, but now they lie between two holes so not in play. A sad loss IMHO
Thanks, Jamie. That drawing is by Rowntree from Bernard Darwin's "Golf Courses of the British Isles."
From Darwin's description, it sounds as though it might have been the 8th hole: "At the eighth we need not place the shot with quite such dreadful accuracy, but instead we must hit prodigiously hard and far, for after we have hit the tee shot a steep hill rears its sandy face between us and the hole, and a really fine carrying brassey shot is needed if we are to be on the green. It is more like a Sandwich hole than a Princes hole....this eighth brings back memories of the mighty Alps at Prestwick...."
He goes on to describe the 11th as "another good hole, where, if we push our drive far enough out to the right over the big hills, we may hope to pout our second on the green, where it nestles amid a guard of hummocks."
I guess it could be either hole, both sound like great blind second shots, but I don't recall the drive as being blind on Sarazen's hole. I'll have to get his book out and take a look!