Designer Tour

[rfitzgerald11]

Hello everyone.  What I'm wondering is if there could potentially be another tour available for all players, all club sets.  Each week the tour would showcase a course that was borderline but did get approved to be in the database.  This could be just a 1 or 2 round event for the week.  The idea is that everyone on the tour could play this short tournament each week and then within the message boards people would go out and give feedback on the course itself.  I think this could help in a lot of ways.

1) It would help the designer to get more feedback from a wide variety of players and club sets to help them improve their work.  Currently it can be very tough to get feedback from a wide variety of players.
2) It would help the course reviewers continue to see what players look for in enjoyable courses.  Maybe the tour overall cares more about course layout than planting.  Or sculpting over length.  Whatever the preferences are.  Then when reviewing they can take that information more into account in the decision to approve or not approve.
3) It would help the people decide on where the tournament locations should be based on the feedback that people say they enjoy.  Same information above so again if people are really loving a couple of aspects and they see a course that may lack in one or two areas but really great in the more recent popular areas it can help make decisions.

So I think a lot of people could get some benefit out of it.  The top designers are just fantastic but if the average designers can get better because of this than I think the overall quality will improve because essentially courses will get that much better.  Also in the message board section now in the under construction and completed courses area, most threads are single digit responses without much if any feedback.  They can quickly move into page 2 and then are essentially lost.  

Again I know things like this all dependent on amount of work.  Creating a tour I'm sure probably is a lot.  So if this would be ridiculous to set up than please pass.  But if by making another tour where every player has an automatic card, is a short tournament and the idea is to give feedback than I think it could really benefit a lot of people involved.  

Thanks again for the hard work.  Looking forward to the 2020 season.

[cephyn]

It's my understanding that the TGCTours are very special in that they're automatically cross-platform thanks to HB. This is unique. And TGCTours doesn't have the ability to create new tours, they're locked into this format for TGC19.

What you're asking for is of course good stuff. It can be hard to get feedback. The best way, I've found, is that you have to hustle your course a bit. Keep updating the WIP threads with pictures and ask questions. Post a 9 hole beta. Engage with other WIP threads and get your name out there. Design on twitch. Drop in on designers on Twitch, watch/learn/ask questions.

It is only the most talented of us that can design in a vacuum and put out something amazing. The rest of us have to engage in the community more.

Also, you could set up a society yourself, on whatever platform you're on, and host courses that were denied database approval. Start your own threads on them. Get people involved by being involved.

[rfitzgerald11]

Knowing that about the tours and connection with HB is good to know. Not really possible then. Thanks for the info and thoughts.