Erik, Laying up is too general a term. The exact right play, for the best in the world who can intentionally attempt it, is to hit the kick plate, off the front/side of the right bunker, that will send the ball left to the flagstick.
The play for mere mortals is JUST short and right, to the apron. A slight miss to the right and you get the kick plate. Technically not a lay-up, but day in and day out, with this mindset, you will avoid the vagaries. You might not get a GIR stat but you will will likely avoid anything higher than par.
As we are seeing today, with the wind, this hole encapsulates how the mood/mojo changes at Pebble Beach at this moment in the routing, where one typically needs to start to " hang on ".
It's an under appreciated hole, most likely dissed because few ever get to play it enough to figure it out.
Pebble's final 7 hole stretch is full of little idiosyncrasies, and they all start here. And most of them involve how the holes that go in this direction, play. A little longer than your stock yardage might experience.
Pete, IMO, playing the obvious carry distance over the front bunker is the wrong strategy due to the severe slope off the backside of the bunker. It's the sucker play. For that reason alone it's better than crummy. Perhaps that's what was meant when whoever said to Jack in '72 "We are trying to identify the best player".