Riverdale Golf Courses - Dunes - Colorado

[skeettz]

Hello Everyone!
I am newer to designing, done only one course that I designed on PS4 (pretty terrible in comparison to the stuff I see on twitch btw..) but after seeing this Lidar thing I ended up picking up the game on PC so I could take a stab at my home course in Colorado. 

Riverdale Dunes is a course created by Pete Dye. It has been named one of the top 100 public courses in the US and #1 in Colorado a few times. I highly recommend it to anyone traveling to the Denver area. 

Below are a few pics, I hope I can do it justice after importing and planting everything!

[stoneysooner]

Good to see Colorado well represented on here. Love the Dunes Course. Looking forward to checking it out.

[SluggerWx]

Mar 15, 2019 12:45:01 GMT -5 skeettz said:

Hello Everyone!
I am newer to designing, done only one course that I designed on PS4 (pretty terrible in comparison to the stuff I see on twitch btw..) but after seeing this Lidar thing I ended up picking up the game on PC so I could take a stab at my home course in Colorado. 

Riverdale Dunes is a course created by Pete Dye. It has been named one of the top 100 public courses in the US and #1 in Colorado a few times. I highly recommend it to anyone traveling to the Denver area. 

Below are a few pics, I hope I can do it justice after importing and planting everything!





Skeetz - late to the party here but I just wanted to say that before moving to ATL 3 years ago, I spent the previous 7 in the Denver area.

Your recreation here is awesome. 

The holes are so good, but I thought your shining stars are: 2, 8, 9, 11,14, 15-17.
-14 plays exactly as it does in real life - you can go for the green but if you tug it even the slightest you have huge trees to deal with
-15 is just an outstanding hole in real life - you've done it justice here.
-16 is great - you have the lines perfect as well as the false front with the big drop off on the right side of the green
-17 looks amazing (only thing to add is a very notable 'retaining wall' protects the hill to the left of the cart path beside the green)

Just found this a couple days ago and couldn't be happier! I always felt like the ball didn't roll out too far on the fairway - it's almost like the moisture & surrounding lakes feed the fairways. So, I actually put the course on Soft (Terrain), Very Firm (Green), Very Fast (Speed) to give it a pretty close to real life experience. I also put high winds because it's always blowing out there.

I created a pretty cool version of Fossil Trace back in TGC1 but never published it. I kind of screwed up my great work when I went back to line the fairways in light rough. Originally went with the Fairways + Heavy Rough to get the smoothed out fairways (back when TGC1 produced those jagged edges).

I don't know if LiDAR is available for Fossil Trace, but I imagine you'll get a ton of plays if you could recreate that one as well!

[Bullete]

May 7, 2020 12:43:06 GMT -5 SluggerWx said:

Mar 15, 2019 12:45:01 GMT -5 skeettz said:

Hello Everyone!
I am newer to designing, done only one course that I designed on PS4 (pretty terrible in comparison to the stuff I see on twitch btw..) but after seeing this Lidar thing I ended up picking up the game on PC so I could take a stab at my home course in Colorado. 

Riverdale Dunes is a course created by Pete Dye. It has been named one of the top 100 public courses in the US and #1 in Colorado a few times. I highly recommend it to anyone traveling to the Denver area. 

Below are a few pics, I hope I can do it justice after importing and planting everything!





Skeetz - late to the party here but I just wanted to say that before moving to ATL 3 years ago, I spent the previous 7 in the Denver area.

Your recreation here is awesome. 

The holes are so good, but I thought your shining stars are: 2, 8, 9, 11,14, 15-17.
-14 plays exactly as it does in real life - you can go for the green but if you tug it even the slightest you have huge trees to deal with
-15 is just an outstanding hole in real life - you've done it justice here.
-16 is great - you have the lines perfect as well as the false front with the big drop off on the right side of the green
-17 looks amazing (only thing to add is a very notable 'retaining wall' protects the hill to the left of the cart path beside the green)

Just found this a couple days ago and couldn't be happier! I always felt like the ball didn't roll out too far on the fairway - it's almost like the moisture & surrounding lakes feed the fairways. So, I actually put the course on Soft (Terrain), Very Firm (Green), Very Fast (Speed) to give it a pretty close to real life experience. I also put high winds because it's always blowing out there.

I created a pretty cool version of Fossil Trace back in TGC1 but never published it. I kind of screwed up my great work when I went back to line the fairways in light rough. Originally went with the Fairways + Heavy Rough to get the smoothed out fairways (back when TGC1 produced those jagged edges).

I don't know if LiDAR is available for Fossil Trace, but I imagine you'll get a ton of plays if you could recreate that one as well!

Can you please tell us the exact in game course name? I would like to play it.

[SluggerWx]

May 8, 2020 8:24:19 GMT -5 Bullete said:

May 7, 2020 12:43:06 GMT -5 SluggerWx said:

Can you please tell us the exact in game course name? I would like to play it.

I think I just searched for Riverdale and it came up. It's really, really awesome. Made me a big believer in the capabilities of LiDAR paired with a designer that's obviously played the course before. Specifically, there are water features on the Par 5 Hole 11 in real life.

Water all along the right side until about 200 from pin, then there's nasty overgrowth and then two small ponds UP* the hill. One protects the right side of green, one is a little farther back.

On this hole, your ball can land in THREE different water hazards for each of you drive, layup and approach shots. So, you can't miss right basically the entire hole.

The kicker?

The last two hazards are basically blind after your tee shot. If you layup left after your tee, you'll see them on your short approach in for GIR.

I literally learned to hit a controlled draw for this hole in real life.

And, for hole 7 and hole 15, I had to basically learn to hit a controlled fade - both are water left from tee to green.

Both translate awesomely in real life.

Bonus? My son and I have fished the pond on the Par 3 8th hole about 5-6 times. He's got it all here in the published version.

DEFINITELY worth a play - it IS the real life course.

If you want conditions like real life, IMO do this:
Terrain: Soft
Greens: Very Firm
Green Speed: Fast or Very Fast

On that same note, someone else designed a LiDAR version of The President's Reserve golf course at Hermitage Golf Club in the Nashville area. It's one of the best in Tennessee and extremely difficult.

In game, it's published as Hermitage GC. It's absolutely true to form.

In one week, I found my old home courses from when I lived in Nashville and then Denver both have pristine RCR versions in this game. Quite am awesome discovery!

[Bullete]

May 8, 2020 21:25:06 GMT -5 SluggerWx said:

May 8, 2020 8:24:19 GMT -5 Bullete said:

Can you please tell us the exact in game course name? I would like to play it.

I think I just searched for Riverdale and it came up. It's really, really awesome. Made me a big believer in the capabilities of LiDAR paired with a designer that's obviously played the course before. Specifically, there are water features on the Par 5 Hole 11 in real life.

Water all along the right side until about 200 from pin, then there's nasty overgrowth and then two small ponds UP* the hill. One protects the right side of green, one is a little farther back.

On this hole, your ball can land in THREE different water hazards for each of you drive, layup and approach shots. So, you can't miss right basically the entire hole.

The kicker?

The last two hazards are basically blind after your tee shot. If you layup left after your tee, you'll see them on your short approach in for GIR.

I literally learned to hit a controlled draw for this hole in real life.

And, for hole 7 and hole 15, I had to basically learn to hit a controlled fade - both are water left from tee to green.

Both translate awesomely in real life.

Bonus? My son and I have fished the pond on the Par 3 8th hole about 5-6 times. He's got it all here in the published version.

DEFINITELY worth a play - it IS the real life course.

If you want conditions like real life, IMO do this:
Terrain: Soft
Greens: Very Firm
Green Speed: Fast or Very Fast

On that same note, someone else designed a LiDAR version of The President's Reserve golf course at Hermitage Golf Club in the Nashville area. It's one of the best in Tennessee and extremely difficult.

In game, it's published as Hermitage GC. It's absolutely true to form.

In one week, I found my old home courses from when I lived in Nashville and then Denver both have pristine RCR versions in this game. Quite am awesome discovery!

Thank you so much!! I'll play them today.

Edit, I played Riverdale and I enjoyed the course layout but I thinks it needs more details to make it more inmersive. However it's a nice course, I used the conditions you said in your post.

Thank you!