It would be interesting to see how the typical Raynor greens changed to reflect the contours. Maybe the Redan is really flat to look sloped back left, or the back tier of a Biarizts or Double plateau are actually level or below the front their? Played there, but seriously can't recall.
Lester,
See above about any recall of that day with ASGCA. My best memory is playing with Ress (always a treat) in his first round back from shoulder surgery. On the first tee, waxing eloquent about how great it is to be back, how great golf is......misses a 3 footer for par on the first green and blurts out "I HATE this game!" How typical of all of us. I think it was half serious and half in jest, but it was a funny contrast, and I have used it often.....sometimes without the ongoing set up from the first tee on.
Back on topic, we have discussed this before, and I touched on it above, but sans a steep slope to mess up perspective, on flatland ground the hardest green to read is one that has some short of up or down change of slope/grade midway on a putt. They are easier to account for right as the ball leaves the putter, or dies near the hole, but are pretty darned hard to judge speed if midway through a decent length putt.
Tripp Davis and Justin Leonard feel so strongly about this that at Old American, they told me most greens have spines almost cutting an "X" through the green at some angle. Unless you are in the right quadrant, you have a change of grade somewhere in your putt, accentuating the need to get close for birdie.
Frankly, I have always thought gently rolling throughout creates the mythical "proportional" challenge of making a 20 foot put about twice as hard to make as a 10 foot putt. I would think on average, the mid grade theory would make the challenge substantially greater, and I wonder if it really needs to be?