Thanks to Ian for that bit of information...no wonder I didn't recognize anyone in the group upon which I stumbled.
#6 is only truly difficult the first time...The shot is an eight iron to the lower third of the green. You simply don't mess with a middle or back pin, unless you are Dudley Hart (a member) or a teenage golfer on my team, bent on adding to my farm of gray hairs. Shots that tumble off either side of the rear 2/3 of the green are nearly impossible to get up and down and are fairly difficult to keep on the green (lots of back and forth on that hole!) Essentially, you let your putter do the work and that is that. There is little "killer" internal contour, so long putts from down low to up middle or up top have a break that is easy to discern.
The tee decks wrap around the escarpment/quarry lip to the left and the shot from the 120 yard deck (where our girls team plays from in the spring) is easily as much fun.
CCB was the second quarry course (Merion being the first) built in the USA, I've been told.
John, Yale doesn't need any eruptions. In fact, this hole would be the fifth-best par three at Yale (although I do believe it to be world class) simply because it wouldn't fit the Raynor system.
As Mark will attest, the hole doesn't always look like it does in Jim's shot. That is a perfect day, perfect lighting, perfect color contrast of all of nature's work.