The alternate placement involves a lot of navigation around a large pine tree.
Many people have more success going down the right hand side and banking in.
I don't tend to see a lot of birdies that way however. No matter how you slice it, this hole is not easy. 316 This if your relief after having suffered through hole 12. Unless of course you play from the B pads in which case you have no chance of seeing the target at all with those trees in your way. No more trees.