Hi Michael-
I'm with you. A drop shot is something like #7 at Pocono Manor East or any of a few holes at Hideaway Hills. The fourth at Lulu is a wonderful short par 3 but it isn't (in its typical presentation) a "drop shot". Having said that, I have played the hole at least three times with a drop shot. Maybe because the green needed some healing time or maybe because the members wanted to spice things up, the super placed tee markers on top of the hill and the pin sat on the regular back tee. That was a drop shot!
I figure those quarries (in front of #2 and at #4 plus the quarry hole across the street at Manufacturers) build some of the finer homes in Chestnut Hill. Lulu has a terrific exemplar of a punch bowl hole too at #8. Not too many contemporary designers would build that hole that way either. Lulu is one of the few places (maybe the only place?) where I played a par three in an outing with two pins on the green, either of which was good. Number 6 at Lulu is a three tiered, severely sloping (front to back) green that plays a mid iron (for most) to the front tier (pin #1) and a longer iron to the back. I think people were having sufficient problems with back pins at the hole that they started setting up a front and a back pin. Nothing like cheering someone who was chipping from the back fringe to the back pin with just a little too much steam, while watching the ball roll inexorably down the slopes (and hopefully stopping somewhere near the front pin). That gradual roll can take a full 10 to 15 seconds. In regular play with just the back pin, the hole can wreck a good score.
Really solid par 3s in general at Lulu!
Mark