Course Design Issue

[SwoopingMagpie]

I would like to ask a question....


The 3 courses I have created have all come out as either hard or medium difficulty, so what do I need to get an easy or easiest rating . I like to provide a challenge.......granted my first course Hidden Greens was terrible and then my second, Golden Ash Greens came up as medium.
By my third course I have developed my skills in the designer, but by no means am I brilliant. The Wetlands Golf Course which I only recently published has come up as hard, so what am I doing wrong......after all it’s a computer game and I find my third course to be relatively easy. I would have been fine with medium, but some how returned to hard.
Some details would be extremely helpful.
Thanks

[sandsaver01]

The game itself determines that rating, and I have NO IDEA what it's criteria are. Most of the courses I have done are rated Easy or Easiest, but I do not know why. I have played some courses rated Easiest where it was hard to even shoot par. Did you try posting this question on the HB forums, maybe HB_Shaun will have the answer.

[SwoopingMagpie]

Ok thanks for that

[ErixonStone]

It's going to depend on who plays your course more than how difficult your course actually is. If good players play the course, your course will get an Easy rating. If a bunch of novices play, then you'll get a hard rating.

It's all based on the raw score without the players' ability taken into account at all.