Dan, Jeff - what I see in the photo is this:
Even though one of the essentials for a golf course (built outside, in nature) to remain playable (in the rain, which tends to fall outside) is for the greens through slopes and contours to repel and drain the rain water away, the green in this photo does the exact opposite, not repelling but instead allowing (even encouraging, it seems) the rain water to pool on that most important/crucial area of the field of play, the green. (You can play golf pretty easily off soggy fairways, but you can't really putt through standing water.) And the water is pooling there instead of being shunted and drained away via slopes and contours -- again, a basic requirement for a game played in nature -- for the very simple (but completely out of whack) reason that flatter greens with less contour/slopes can today be mowed down to within a inch of their lives and produce the much-vaunted stimp numbers that USGA and private club types seem to have wet dreams about. Whoever designed/re-designed this green has put an idea/ideal/fantasy of the ego (speed, more speed, that's what impresses) ahead of a practical and time tested requirement of the game. IMHO of course.
Peter