The course that comes to mind is a not one that is world renowned, but it is my local public named Pine Hills in Manorville, NY. The fifth hole is a short par 4 (it had been a par 3 a long time ago). The fifth is a long dog leg left par 4 which is the number 1 handicap. The Seventh is a longer par 4. The fifth hole was a perfect time for a short 4. They have a pond short left of the green, and it is about 10 feet below the green surface. The green sloped hard from right to left. There was a bunker on the right about 70 yards short of the green. If you tried to drive the green, you would have to carry the bunkers on the right, and have the ball roll up, using the slope to get on the green. If you pulled your shot, you would put the pond into play. The safe play was to hit a hybrid and a wedge, but the green sloped hard, and you had to be precise. The club thought that the severity of the greens was holding up play, meanwhile the course plays in over 4 hours no matter what. They decided to flatten the green totally. They did not bring in a construction crew, but decided to do this themselves. They took all the character out of the green, and made a rock hard surface that can not be held. If that is not bad enough, they put an oval flat bunker right in front of this new green, so that you cannot run a driver (or anything else) on. The icing on the cake is that they screwed up the construciton so bad that they had to close the new green down for the season to work on it. They took a nice hole with some character and made it awful.