For a second ever attempt this is much much better than my second attempt which was totally unplayable. This is playable and was reasonably good fun. A bogey free 2 under round with a birdie on 18 to finish.
However I have some general issues that do let this down and are pretty typical for first/second attempts. A lot of them are simple fixed that beastly improve how a course plays and really importantly, how it looks.
Sculpting - there were a few very odd slopes just offline. This can easily happen when flattening fairways but really catches the eye. Running over things with the big fuzzy brush and making sure spline points are aligned and smoothed could sort most of this.
Planting - some good but some not at all. There’s good detailed planting on bits of the course but other areas are just vast areas of deal green nothingness with the odd tree. Bushes and sunken trees can be used really well to frame holes and block out land that isn’t being used.
Jagged paths - this is again a flattening out point. Your paths looked in places like they’d just been through an earthquake.
6th - I hit a perfect drive to fairway and stuck behind a tree with no option for the green. Not a fan of this design. A good drive should be rewarded.
10 par 3 totally blind. Couldn’t see any part of the pin.
12 lake above green? On a game where anything is possible I guess this can be built. But in real life I’d suspect your green would be flooded daily.
Vary up the par 5s - 3 over 640 subgroup much fun as there is no chance of getting there so it just becomes two slogs and a wedge without much strategy choice.
All of the back nine is blind (well not all of it but a good chunk). I didn’t get this feel on the front nine but really noticed on the back that I couldn’t see where I was trying to hit it from the tee.
Why is the island green uphill and semi blind? Just felt odd.
I’ve put a lot of comments in and I appreciate a lot of time will have gone into this. Building courses well is hard and this was much better than many of my attempts. Keep going and you’ll keep improving.