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Post by culallen on Apr 6, 2017 23:23:12 GMT -5
This will be my first attempt at a links course. This will be a rugged test with a lot of risk/reward opportunities. Here are a few screenshots: Hole #18, a reachable, but treacherous par 4, whose fairway co-mingles with hole #1 on the right. Looking back up the fairway of hole #9 on the right, and down the fairway of hole #10, over the halfway house located directly on the cliffs. The shared green complex of holes #1 and #17, with #1 and #18 fairways and part of the village in the background.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 9:53:07 GMT -5
Looking good! It does look accurately links-y. ;-)
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Post by culallen on Apr 30, 2017 16:52:44 GMT -5
Wanted to share a little more of my progress on this one. #3 tee box with #2 green and #16 fairway in the background. #3 Green with #4 tee box, and the village and marina in the background. Approach into #5 green with #6 tee box to the left and #6 fairway beyond. The elevated tee box of #8 overlooking #7 green, with #11/#6 green complex behind. #13 green complex. The shared fairway of #15 (left) and #4, with the village and the marina in the background. #15 green complex I've still got planting and some other finishing touches to do. I'm a slow designer, so I'm hoping to get this published in the next couple of weeks so it can get a few TGC1 plays. I'd love to hear some feedback!
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Post by stevechurch2222 on Apr 30, 2017 18:18:47 GMT -5
I am just starting my first real course recreation doing Wakonda Club in Des Moines,Iowa home of the Principal Charity Classic on the champions tour so far I like the course your course looks really good and I plan on playing it when you get it published.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 19:35:44 GMT -5
I'm really looking forward to this course Cullen, is it published yet?
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Post by culallen on May 5, 2017 13:03:17 GMT -5
I'm really looking forward to this course Cullen, is it published yet? Not yet, but I'm getting close. I may have it ready this weekend. I'm kind of to the point I am on any course I make where I'm like "screw it!" Get it published and be done with it. Then I inevitably think of things I forgot to change.
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Post by jacobkessler on May 5, 2017 13:20:22 GMT -5
I'm really looking forward to this course Cullen, is it published yet? Not yet, but I'm getting close. I may have it ready this weekend. I'm kind of to the point I am on any course I make where I'm like "screw it!" Get it published and be done with it. Then I inevitably think of things I forgot to change. Yep, very easy to get a bit burnt out. I have so many unfinished projects that unfortunately will probably never get done.
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Post by culallen on May 6, 2017 18:02:31 GMT -5
Updated the thread title for course name change. I grew to hate the original. This is getting close. I may have it published by tomorrow night. I'll let TreeWood know if he needs to get a press release ready!
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Post by TreeWood on May 7, 2017 18:28:51 GMT -5
The TreeWood Times
Opinion: What's in a Name? By Rob Scott
Last week, in the Forgedale Springs CC thread, The TreeWood Times alluded to the First Rule of Business (see thread). Today, we move on to address the second rule, which states simply: "If the name sucks, just change it!"
History is rife with examples of the good ol' fashioned name change - particularly in the world of entertainment. I mean who the hell would want to buy tickets to a concert featuring one Reginald Dwight? But if you're of a certain vintage - say, old enough to understand what Haight-Ashbury refers to - you'd much rather pay your hard- earned cash to see Elton John. Except, they're one and the same. Can't say I blame poor old Reggie.
Similarly, if your birth certificate read Vincent Furnier perhaps you, too, would change your name to Alice Cooper, and go on to become the king of shock rock, complete with props including an albino python, guillotines, and enough eye-black to convince anyone that there was indeed no more mr. nice guy.
But not every name change is a guarantee to success: Can you say "New Coke"? OK, OK, that came with a disastrous formulation change too, but seriously? New Coke? How many million were sunk into that naming brilliance?
And "brilliance" provides for a nice segue into the heart of the current matter at hand - the change of name from Cullallen Village to The Links at Trousenbury. Famed course designer Cullen Allen, in great contrast to the current US President, never was that enthused about slapping his own name on his current WIP. Allen had the foresight and marketing genius to instead re-brand The Village with a moniker that exudes the very essence of Golf in its infancy - conjuring up images of evil pot bunkers, gorse thicker than Graham DeLaet's one-time beard, and merciless winds carrying sea spray aloft to sting the eyes. Trousenbury - the name brings the sound of bagpipes to my ears, and makes me want to equip my bag with a mid mashie, a cleek, a few spoons, and the trusty ol' brassie.
But the question remains: Will the course, itself, live up to its new name? Some sources have insisted that there's absolutely no doubt. Count TGC professional Steve Church among the convinced, calling the design "more incred- ibly beautiful than one can imagine. I have witnessed the face of God," he said.
Allen's course is nearing completion according to my overseas sources, so while the jury may still be out, we should be able to decide for ourselves in the near future.
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Post by culallen on May 8, 2017 9:38:37 GMT -5
So now is the tough part: timing the release.
I recognize that I'm the indie film here. I'd be crazy to release my course at the same time as the Star Wars of courses, the new St. Andrews, not to mention Marvel's Forgedale, Disney-Pixar's Ellie Cliffs, or the Cohen brothers' Muirfield.
Real life got in the way this past weekend, so hopefully I can have this published mid-week. Stay tuned!
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