Template Hole Golf (golden age architecture)
Mar 7, 2019 6:23:21 GMT -5
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Post by joegolferg on Mar 7, 2019 6:23:21 GMT -5
THE TEMPLATE THREAD
A thread that is dedicated to the design styles of many golden age architects but mostly to the template hole philosophy and it's pioneers, C B Macdonald and Seth Raynor. This thread will come of no surprise to many of you, especially as I'm the one who has created it, but I feel that a thread like this needs to exist in a sun forum titled "course architecture." After all, it was C B Macdonald who ushered in the golden age of golf in America.
I've been creating template designs on TGC for about eighteen months now, and I've built most of them with a particular style that has been like marmite amongst the community - a love/hate sort of affair. The style I mostly build with is that of Seth Raynor, which features a lot of geometric shaping to the courses. I feel the nerd to do this not only because Raynor is my favorite architect of all time but, because since Pete Kolis left the community, nobody else built Raynor style golf courses. I am one in a thousand who builds to a particular style, so surely there's enough room for a template purist like myself? I say this because many times I've been told to try something different but, I've already been there and done that. I've built roughly 10-15 non template courses throughout this games history so far, and it just so happens that at the end of the TGC2 cycle I found a style that I love and enjoy and now wish to carry on for as long as it lasts.
I will update this thread often with tons of information, history, learning material, pictures (in game & real life) and architect profiles.
A thread that is dedicated to the design styles of many golden age architects but mostly to the template hole philosophy and it's pioneers, C B Macdonald and Seth Raynor. This thread will come of no surprise to many of you, especially as I'm the one who has created it, but I feel that a thread like this needs to exist in a sun forum titled "course architecture." After all, it was C B Macdonald who ushered in the golden age of golf in America.
I've been creating template designs on TGC for about eighteen months now, and I've built most of them with a particular style that has been like marmite amongst the community - a love/hate sort of affair. The style I mostly build with is that of Seth Raynor, which features a lot of geometric shaping to the courses. I feel the nerd to do this not only because Raynor is my favorite architect of all time but, because since Pete Kolis left the community, nobody else built Raynor style golf courses. I am one in a thousand who builds to a particular style, so surely there's enough room for a template purist like myself? I say this because many times I've been told to try something different but, I've already been there and done that. I've built roughly 10-15 non template courses throughout this games history so far, and it just so happens that at the end of the TGC2 cycle I found a style that I love and enjoy and now wish to carry on for as long as it lasts.
I will update this thread often with tons of information, history, learning material, pictures (in game & real life) and architect profiles.
