I have played that course several times, and I too, have hit a drive down the left side, hit the cart path and bounced OB! The course is not very user friendly if you can't carry the ball over 150-180 in the air. Seniors have trouble with this course. Not to mention there is a par 3 on the front with large marsh and reeds to carry, making it a blind shot. The 9th hole also has a long carry over marsh/reeds, with driver bringing reeds into play. If you don't lay up to the edge of the reeds you have a 150-185 carry to get to the green.
But, the most puzzling hole is the 18th. A long fairway straight away off the tee, however the green is 90 degrees to the right of the fairway, over a pond/stream running the right side of the hole. A few trees on the right about 150 yards out off the fairway obscuring the green from the tee. We hit driver down the hole, wound up having to shoot back to the right making a longer approach shot into the green. My buddy, a PGA instructor, looking at the hole for the first time, figured the best way to play the hole was 7-iron off the tee past the trees on right, then 7 iron into the green. We though the tee shot from the Red tees made it a better hole, a driveable par 4 with a slight fade, as the tee is situated just left of the fairway facing the green. He wound up speaking to Furyk about the hole, told him how it played as two 7 irons on a finishing hole. It would have played better as a par 3. Jim said "I hadn't thought of that".