SOUTH PARIS – The putting green is new. The rest of Paris Hill Country Club isn’t.

And that’s a good thing.

Built atop a ridge on Paris Hill Road, the course itself is more than 100 years old. It was carved out of farmland, and wedges between a bevy of land-marking rock walls, indicative of the time during which it was constructed.

The course won’t wow anyone with its length. It’s a nine-hole track, just XXX yards from the ‘tips,’ and plays to a par of 33 strokes.

But good luck shooting par if you’ve never seen the place.

Tight is a good word to use here, and you can use it on almost every hole. Danger lurks to the right of every hole along the property’s boundary (there are four).

And the greens?

“They’re almost all postage-stamp greens,” Director of Golf Mike Cloutier said. “It’s tough to hit these greens.”

One of the smallest is the green at No. 6, a 125-yard par-3. The green is just 17 paces deep (about 51 feet), and 14 paces wide (42 feet).

The vistas from the top of the course (it’s built on a mild slope) offer some of the best views in town, and the deep green color in the fairways rarely goes away.

“It’s not typical sod that you’ll find at most golf courses,” Cloutier said. “It’s a clay-based soil, and it doesn’t dry out as fast.”

He said even now, after this relatively dry summer, you could likely dig just nine inches deep and still find damp ground. There’s no irrigation here, he said, but it doesn’t matter.

And perhaps the best attribute Paris Hill offers its patrons?

Its price.

“Not everybody who plays golf can afford to go out and pay a lot of money for it,” Cloutier said. “You can play here for 12 dollars, and after 4 p.m., it’s just ten.”

Truly, Paris Hill is a throwback, in every good way possible.