nobody could hold the green...
GOLF; A Hard Green, As in Concrete, At the Seventh
''Tomorrow, I'm aiming for the bunker,'' said Triplett, tired of watching his golf ball skim across the green like a rock across Peconic Bay. ''It wouldn't hurt them to sprinkle it a little.''
Lee Janzen, a two-time United States Open champion, explained Shinnecock's devilish seventh hole this way: ''If you designed 18 greens like that, nobody would come play your course.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/sports/golf-a-hard-green-as-in-concrete-at-the-seventh.html