SBR's analysis is very accurate, in my opinion. Probably the bad news for those courses and clubs that're into an over-irrigated no ground game process and mentality is that to get their courses back to firmer and faster and the reestablishing of the ground game option, is, unfortunately, often not the simplest process once you've been down the wrong road too long. Unfortunately just turning off the water is not the only thing that needs to be done. Grass is a living thing and like all living things it takes time and effort to reacclimate it. As SBR said the key is to get those roots down a whole lot deeper than the roots are on agronomy that's been over-irrigated for years. And sometimes that means real expense remediating soil conditions (compaction, hydrophobia etc) so the roots and water can get deep and perch deep. Basically that's the only way consistently firm and fast conditions can be reestablished.
If your super tells you the only way to establish firm and fast conditions "through the green" is to spend twice as much cutting the fairways twice as much tell him to zip it because I guarantee you he's lying to you through his teeth because he thinks you don't know what's going on here which you probably don't!
See the thread on "Nature's Way" and the "Pa Am at Huntingdon Valley" for more and complete info on this subject. What HVGC did years ago is the only way any other club can get all the way down this road to consistently firm and fast conditions.
I really do hope that HVGC eventually does get the recognition for starting this on their own so long ago that so many thought was so odd and radical. There was no one out there back then to help them---they developed their processes all by themselves.
As Tom Doak said there's always been courses out there that have always done what HVGC has been doing for the last decade or two but the difference in my opinion, is that HVGC is the first to actually turn things around from an over-irrigated and chemical dependent golf course and go down the right road of an organic and dry culture and process.
If any club out there that's been over-irrigated and chemical dependent for years is interested in consistently firm and fast conditions both "through the green" and on the greens, my suggestion would be to call up Huntingdon Valley G.C., Huntingdon Valley, Pa and ask them how they did it---collaborate with them both in their maintenance practices and how they sold the idea of this type of playablity to their membership.
And furthermore, if any club has some mentality amongst their better players that a soft golf course that requires only aerial shots is the best way for them to strut their talent and that a firm and fast course and a ultra functional ground game is for weak players and hackers, I definitely challenge those good players in those over-irrigated clubs out there to try their talent at HVGC. I'll guarantee them HVGC will whup the asses of those good players from soft over-irrigated courses every single day for a solid month until they finally figure out what good and complete golf is all about---eg firm and fast conditions throughout!