Hey, what do you know, I can actually comment usefully on something, having played Crystal Downs!
But why start being useful so late in life...
To channel Bob Crosby -- greens, like hamburgers and lawn darts and baseball mitts, just ARE
To channel John Kavanaugh - i hate golfers, everything is always about them. best if all the whiners took up bowling.
Me: greens are the same wherever you go. if I suck as a golfer it's not the greens' fault -- ever. if I was a better ball striker, I could've hit my approach shots to better spots on Crystal Downs' greens; if I was a better scrambler, I could've chipped and pitched and sand-blasted my way to a decent position after missing those greens; and if I was a better putter, I could've made all my previous mistakes less painful and saved par plenty of times.
But I'm none of those things.
And I bet few of those who play Stone Eagle are either.
But if those Stone Eagle greens survive the wrath and bile of those hacks for a couple of more decades, they'll be safe.