Joe - MP is very compact, alot of golf course on 80 or so acres. But I don't feel it's crammed. I can't think of a single hole that is diminished because it runs into another hole or has another alongside it. One neat thing about the layout is that there are certain spots on the course where you can see pieces of up to eleven holes, yet as Ben says, it has lots of trees. That's pretty unique, to say the least. The routing is incredibly effficient for sure.
It's funny - I'm about a one or two with modern equipment and maybe a five or six with my hickories (it's an incredibly fun hickory course) and the course is very difficult for its length. More often than not I don't playy to my handicap out there because it requires a level of precision that I don't have. But every so often I go birdie-crazy out there, more often than not in the process of a wild up and down round. That just doesn't happen at #2, which to me is more of a fun grind.
And Ben is right about the green speeds. If MP's were ever cut anywhere north of 9.5 or 10, the place would be terrifying. You could set up every hole at 100 yards and just with some interesting cupping make it so that even players like you or me would have a tough time making 3's.