Idea- creating a fictional course on real LIDAR terrain

[jacobkessler]

Hey all!

I just wanted to bring up an idea I had that uses this new tool. It’s pretty self explanatory- you find some IRL land with quality LIDAR to use, and you put it into a plot. Then, you create a new course using that terrain. Would anyone be interested in seeing something like that? I actually had an idea like this a while back but abandoned it when I tried to sculpt, so I still have a full 18 hole course plotted on google earth. Just a thought. Opinions?

[chadgolf]

Yes, I heard about a guy building a course on lidar from his grandfather's farm.

I suppose it could be possible to do "remixes" of existing or famous courses as well.

[rod81simo]

I’ll definitely be playing around with this concept at some point

[theclv24]

For my Raynor Farms course I took the course that I grew up playing and tried to recreate it the best I could, and then I renovated it to build a Seth Raynor course on top of it. At some point I will likely generate the course that my parents live on, and then renovate that course into something interesting. I expect the second go-round to be immensely easier, assuming I can locate the lidar data.