the game was historically played on fast fairways and slow greens. Now we have slow fairways and fast greens. Things have changed. I think that course designers generally go too far nowadays.
As I Golf Course Superintendent you have NO idea how much I LOVE to hear statments like this
unlike LAST SUMMER when it was 105 and humid(80%) on bentgrass greens all I heard was CUT THE GREENS WE WANT 11 ON THE STIMP