Hole 5, Par 4, 363 yards:
Well designed par 4 that plays back up the hill. While the hole is fairly short, the hill obviously makes it play longer and also generally more difficult on the second shot. The tee shot can be played as long as the player may want, but if played short of the upslope, the player will be left with a flat lie, beyond that it is an uphill lie. Looking at the old aerial, it proves what I thought was the case, that being that many of the trees on the front nine have been semi-recently planted.
A look at the uphill second shot from about 100 yards out. From this angle, the left side of the green is obscured, as is the left side bunker.
Looking down on the green from above the left side bunker. There is a bunker short right as well, and a grass-type bunker abutting the bunker on the right, which, as I suspected, was originally a sand bunker that has since been covered.
An up-close look at the green. I intended to show the ridge/tier that runs down the center of the green perpendicular to the line of play, but the picture did not turn out as I wanted.
Going to the 1940's aerial, I did think it was a slight oddity with the current 7th playing back to the pro shop, but given there the range is and the 'club' part of the course over on that side of the street, I actually thought the current front nine may have been the original back nine, with the would-be 16th playing back close to the clubhouse. As far as having to add in new holes, I must say that the course may be better with the current 13th and 14th than the old 3rd and 4th. 13 and 14 are very good holes, as is the present 12th for that matter. Those two holes have great movement in the land, where the original holes would have played straight downhill (#3) and then straight back uphill (#4). There is very little land movement, at least at the present time, in the land that those two holes occupied.