"They're both an infrastructure on which to put a skin or surface," he said.
Then you try to make a putt on a perfect putting surface.
Those conditions made golf balls do funny things, both in the air and on the putting surface.
Experience on a variety of putting surfaces is the only way to learn this judgment skill.
So a shot from off the putting surface can never be scored as a putt, no matter what club strikes the ball.
But it was his work on the smooth putting surfaces that made his round.
His third shot also missed the putting surface.
If the quicksilver putting surfaces don't get them, the tournament's mystique will.
In 1986 the putting surfaces were relaid with greens.
Memories long put aside surface; forgotten hurts abrade again.