My home course is another county owned facility with pretty good credentials. We held our Wis., State Am a few years ago, and tat year's Senior USGA Am champ won at our State Am with a 4 day -1 and second place was +1. They played at just barely 6850 yards.
We are remodelling all 18 greens at the same time and have been playing 18temps all year. The grow-in is going spectacularly. But, the remodel job did involve taking a bit of internal contour out of some of our best greens. It remains to be seen with the balance of a new cultivar of bent (Luminary developed at Rutgers) and likely greater green speeds, if the tone down of contour is going to take too much scoring resistance out of the equation.
That all said, I recently was speaking with our Pro and a few of or Men's club officers and floated the idea of trying to make contact with Keller's Men's club officials, to think about having a fall 2014 home and home series of competition and try to schedule it on a weekend that also has a Packer's - Vikings game. Since our course would/should be in great condition with green turf by then, we could have the first one here, and the next year at Keller. It could start small with 20-40 players and might catch on and grow into something cool.
I thoroughly enjoyed my play at Keller. I'd go back there in an instant. I don't think the Keller folks would think our course is not up to the challenge either. There are many similarities, but I'd rate Keller better on just about all head to head individual design and now obviously construction features comparisons. Our next projects must involve bunker renewal. The drainage is lousy at current time.