The false fronts at Rolling Green are not a function short mowing around greens; they are a function of elevated greens. The short mowing is just the fairways leading up to greens. There is very little mowing to the greens’ sides or backs.
When Gary Player played at RG a few years ago, he criticized the course for having too many holes where short approaches would roll back from as little as 15 yards to as much as 50-60 yards. He has a point. On 12 of the holes (1,2,3,4,8,9,11,12, 14,15,17 and 18) a ball hit to the very front of the green will roll back a minimum of 15 yards and as much as 60 yards down the fairway, and on 3 others, (6, 13 and 16) the only thing stopping a 20+ yard rollback is rough fronting the green.