Not walking friendly. Actually, just not friendly – greens very nonrecptive with the angles required for many shots. If you play it all the time, you probably could figure out the angles of the fairways and greens, but to play occasionally, very difficult.

My understanding of new greens is that they take a few years to soften and become receptive. Hopefully that will happen with Springfield. Don’t get me wrong – for putting, the greens were great. But for receiving shots, not so much, and the layout of the course is such that you need either receptive greens (nope) or you have to play perfect shot angles into just the right spots on the greens or you are bouncing off into bunkers or rough, especially hard from some of the distances – 9 irons should have a chance, but not hybrids. Again, for the frequent players, this might be fun and challenging, but for someone who doesn’t have a lot of experience with the course, quite frustrating. Plus, right now, they are at the high end of the public play cost range.

seems they are trying to pass on the cost of the new greens to the customers by increasing the greens fees which are way too high