Ballyneal and Dismal Red have the same style collection areas, the members have names for them LOL
the point is that Tom does have a distinctiveness with these collection areas, good, bad, or indifferent
16 at Pacific short right of the green is a favorite small collection area of mine which I avoid
also 3 Old Mac in front of the right fairway/greenside bunker, hard to avoid with the blind tee shot
also 15 Old Mac left fairway bunker 260 off the green tee, like a vortex
You didn't answer the question that I'd asked, which was, how often do you actually have to play out of a divot? I'm looking for a sense of how often it happens before it's something that becomes labeled "unfair" and needs to be fixed.
Because, actually, your saying that you have made yourself avoid the deep bowl short right of #16 at Pacific Dunes was something that made me smile. Unlike, say, the natural bowls on #1 fairway, short right of #16 is
supposed to be a bad place to be. If you're half likely to get in a divot down there, that adds to it, and if you're smart enough to avoid that spot like the plague, good on you.
In general, if you find a divot once a round on one of my courses, I'd just say, "deal with it."
If it's happening a lot more often than that, that's entirely different, then it's a problem that needs to be addressed. I just can't get a sense of how often it happens, because some people complain about it if it happens once in a blue moon. Especially the 1-handicappers, for some reason.