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Post by coursedesignHQ on Mar 6, 2021 13:21:21 GMT -5
Sitting in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with no sign of other land in miles, "The Links at Stonecliff" is a course with breathtaking beauty and history. It was built a hundred years ago by a Scottish explorer who came across the land while making a voyage to find new land to live on and decided to explore the island for a while. He found countless cliffs with large drop-offs, small valleys, and large mountains. He could almost see a golf course there in his mind. He then called together a large colony of Scots who all traveled together the island and set up small villages all across the cliffs. These structures are still standing today. The people of the villages worked together to lay out nine golf holes in different parts of the island. Most of the land was already flat in areas which made the layout quite easy to design. For about fifty years there was a small 9-hole golf course here on the island the people named "Stonecliff Island." But one day, the people of the island mysteriously vanished without a trace. Nobody knew what happened to them. A few years later, more experienced explorers came and refurbished the course, making it a real 18-hole course. But they had no idea about the people who had live here before. Nobody to this day knows which holes were the first nine that the villagers built all those years ago. All that we know is that there is plenty of secrets on this course still waiting to be discovered.
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Post by trailducker on Mar 6, 2021 14:53:37 GMT -5
I gave this a play. Is this your first publish ever? It’s not a bad one if so!
A few critiques I had: - The rocks needed more variation. Whether it’s size, shape merging rocks together, they all seem too uniform and placed as is, takes away from the impact of the terrain being all these rocks when it’s very obviously placed every few yards at the same size and with a slight rotation. - Youre going to get comments about your green size. I’m not so mad and large greens and with this being in Scotland and something on every hole you probably were going for that which is fine. Just it will probably be brought up. Large greens size also puts a premium on your sculpting. Hole one was way too flat for instance but other holes you did better. - Some of your landing zones got too pinched by your fairway bunkers and at times becomes “target golf” which isn’t my favorite style of playing. There’s not enough varied strategies when that happens. Hole 3 and Hole 11 were two holes this happened. - You could use more options to break up fairways then just bunkers. It became repetitive and a bit mind numbing after the first few holes. You need to engage the golfer all 18 with unique decisions each hole, here it became the same decision. - Some of your waypoints needed adjusting. They gave me a 3 Wood when driver was fine. Some people get mad when it does that because they don’t notice until after they hit.
Not a bad course though and number 15 is a beaut!
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Post by coursedesignHQ on Mar 6, 2021 14:56:15 GMT -5
It's my second publish actually! Thanks for the feedback!
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Post by Q on Mar 6, 2021 15:14:05 GMT -5
paging rock guru @babybull to have a look at this one. Im definitely rocking out here!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2021 16:00:07 GMT -5
Whoa... I see rocks. For a second publish, well done! trailducker made very solid observations, and I agree with each one of them. I think, if you keep his feedback in mind, your next publish will be that much better. As for the rocks, my only advice is patience. I have spent a couple hundred hours on rockwork alone for all of my courses for the TGC/PGA2K series. There were moments on your course of, "Wow. That's dope." and moments of, "He rushed this a little." I dig your vision, and I think you are in the right headspace. Keep plugging away and don't be afraid to spend 20-30 hours on starting a course project, but if it stalls, delete the file to start over on a new one. That may sound like a waste of time, but if you give yourself the freedom to stumble, fall on your face, get up, dust yourself off, and start fresh on the next project... you will see the quality of each project increase incrementally. Keep up the good work and rock on!
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Post by coursedesignHQ on Mar 6, 2021 16:52:15 GMT -5
Whoa... I see rocks. For a second publish, well done! trailducker made very solid observations, and I agree with each one of them. I think, if you keep his feedback in mind, your next publish will be that much better. As for the rocks, my only advice is patience. I have spent a couple hundred hours on rockwork alone for all of my courses for the TGC/PGA2K series. There were moments on your course of, "Wow. That's dope." and moments of, "He rushed this a little." I dig your vision, and I think you are in the right headspace. Keep plugging away and don't be afraid to spend 20-30 hours on starting a course project, but if it stalls, delete the file to start over on a new one. That may sound like a waste of time, but if you give yourself the freedom to stumble, fall on your face, get up, dust yourself off, and start fresh on the next project... you will see the quality of each project increase incrementally. Keep up the good work and rock on! Thanks for the feedback! Yes I know there were a lot of rocks
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Post by coursedesignHQ on Mar 8, 2021 11:43:30 GMT -5
This course just got approved!
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Post by coursedesignHQ on Jun 27, 2021 17:13:40 GMT -5
Just came back to this thread for some fun and wow! This course really sucked!😀
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