New Courses with Small Greens

[Evan_Green]

So many of the newer courses have enormous greens- not to say this is a good or bad thing, but it certainly is a very different proposition from a Pebble Beach or Harbour Town (for the sake of this exercise I would not count Harbour Town as a new course). I was wondering what people think are the best newer courses (say, built within 10 yrs) with smaller greens.

[Jeff_Mingay]

For the record, the putting surfaces at Blackhawk GC in suburban Edmonton, Alta. (Rod Whitman) turned out to be quite small, on average.

Blackhawk opened in July 2003, and although I don't have exact figures, I'll guess the green surfaces average not much more than 6,000 sq. ft. Perhaps smaller.

[Joe Hancock]

Jeff,

6000 square feet on average now qualifies as small?....

Doesn't seem that long ago that 5000 sq. ft. was an average size green.

After playing on my 2000- 5000 sq. ft. greens, no wonder everything looks big to me!

Joe

[CHC1948]

Evan,

I can't think of any new courses.  Carolina GC in Charlotte, NC has some of the best small greens I have ever played.  There are some many different pin placements for such small greens.  IT is a great place to work on your game, you got a little of everything!  

CHC

[George Pazin]

How about Applebrook? I recall quite a few of them being pretty small.

[Mitch Hantman]

East Hampton GC!  Greens are tiny, and it's a marvelous course.