Jim,
I'll add you to the brilliant mind category too. You and Mucci together in that category may not be what you want to achieve.
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For clarity, the famous "cliff" hole was the 14th coming up out of the Chambre d'Amour. The famous "chasm" hole was the 3rd, across the chasm. Two different holes that are famous on a course that was almost absurd, peculiar and which ought to be condemned, at least in the view of one contemporaneous writer/critic. Perhaps we'd call them signature holes today.
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Patrick,
The original hole was built in 1888-89 and it looks like it was altered around 1897, so the original only lasted a decade or so. Both holes appear to go in the same direction so I doubt that wind direction was a factor. Most likely it was just a distance issue. Not sure what you mean by the awkward angle of attack. Both versions of the hole appear to be similar in angle of attack. Are you using "flipping" loosely? The hole doesn't appear to have been flipped in the sense of reversing direction.
As Jim noted, a fair bit has been written about it over the years.
Google Earth indicates that the elevation of the tee and green of the original hole were about 100 and 110 feet respectively, so slightly uphill. The second iteration tee and green elevations were about 115 and 100 feet respectively, so slightly downhill.
Again, I'm not sure what you mean by flipping in this context.
I don't know the sources for George's sketch, but it doesn't seem to reflect the teeing grounds and greens of the original hole or its altered second iteration around 1897. I suppose it's possible that there was another 220 yard and 160 yard tee post 1897 and even an inland 90 yard tee in the 1960's, but they don't seem to correlate to what was there from 1889 to say 1900. If George looks in on this thread, maybe he could provide some comment.