Agree Walton Heath gets pretty quick when dried out. And yes, 2003 was acutely dry over most of UK. I was at RSG when Ben Curtis won the Open, which was certainly bouncy
Permit me to recount my 2 favourite anecdotes about fast surfaces (greens)...
1) Peter McEvoy (mentioned in another thread) famously was the first British amateur to make the cut at the Masters. He also won the Brabazon Amateur trophy at Hunstanton in 1980, and reportedly said that the greens were quicker there than at Augusta. I met him a few years ago at a dinner where he was the speaker, and chatting afterwards I asked him whether his comment was true or exaggeration. He nodded emphatically and said “Funny thing was, shortly after I got there (Hunstanton), I wandered on to the practice putting green and threw down a couple of balls to practice my putting, as you do. Somebody shouted over to say hello to me, I looked up to say hello back and when I looked down to start putting, my golf balls had rolled off the green about 30ft away”
2) Tiger Woods during an Open at TOC that he won (possibly 2000) – whilst crouching down to read the line on a putt, he looked across the green and realised he could see daylight under the metal spikes of his playing partner’s shoes as he stood on the edge of the green waiting to putt. I remember Peter Alliss saying as Woods prepared to tee off at the 1st in 2000 with a long iron: "It's like hitting off a plate of glass"
That’ll be quite quick then....