Jonathan- To your thrust, I would agree on principle in most cases, but will site the situation where there is water water everywhere (ala pga west stadium's backnine #11,14(?) where one can only assume the lake raps around the rear and is therefore blind. Predictable but still blind. Also, I would like to site Press Maxwell's use of some semi-blind (depending on your approach angle, both vertically and horizontially) small ponds on the two par fives at Conquistador's front in Cortez, Co. They are short of the green and are so well placed that I found the one on the very first hole, trying to a bump and run from the right treeline rough. It was my own damn fault I didn't bother to checkout what appeared to be an appraoch ramp. I felt harried having had to look for others balls, then my own. My point being that, on a par five, where a third shot is usually a short iron or wedge, these water hazards were strategically placed and by being somewhat concealed from lower elevations (3rd shot) were noticiable from a spot I usually avoid, long and down the middle where anyone going for it in two would have knowledge of forethought.