Here is my first question to tap the collective knowledge and deduction abilities of this forum.
Does anybody have any idea on what hole this photo is showing?
The caption doesn't make a ton of sense to me. "Coming home. at the end of eighteen brisk holes, one looks forward to the cool and invigorating plunge in the breakers of the blue Atlantic".
In the photo, there is a group that appears to be a light gallery that may have been following a match and are now off to somewhere (guessing the resort). The hole isn't the 18th, unless I'm completely disoriented. You can't see the towers. It looks like there is one more hole in the distance with at least one player either on a tee or hitting an approach. Maybe the match finished early and they are bee lining back to the beach? Or maybe the match went to extra holes and concluded and they are making a long walk back?
It seems fairly easy to eliminate holes from contention. Based on what I can tell, it definitely isn't: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, or 18.
That leaves 2, 9, and 17 as candidates. If it is 2, then the player in the distance is on 3 tee (Eden). If it is 9, then the player in the distance doesn't make much sense (because the #1 and #10 tees were left of the green) and the area to the right of the fairway seems built up way too much- unless it was later removed to put the driveway through. If it is 17, then I have no idea why the crowd of people would be walking further back onto the course.
Let me know if you have any theories. I'm very curious to identify it because it gives such good information on the contouring. I didn't realize that the mounds off the fairway would be this big and broad as the one in the far right hand side of the photo. It's such a soft hill, that it wouldn't make a dramatic shadow in the aerials.