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Post by ct723011 on Dec 4, 2020 13:09:04 GMT -5
Can everyone give November Pines my new course a try feedback is appreciated!
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Post by Yaboy_Barry on Dec 4, 2020 13:17:29 GMT -5
Do you have any info, a synopsis, or screenshots of the course? I will be playing it shortly.
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Post by Yaboy_Barry on Dec 4, 2020 14:28:46 GMT -5
Hole 1: Like the tee shot a lot, could have planted some more trees in the pine areas. This hole is also awfully long to not have any sort of area to run the ball up.
Hole 2: Not sure if that was supposed to be a pond or a creek. If it was intended to be a creek, I would suggest extending it to be more realistic. I also would have tried to be a little more random with the planting around the creek, random looks better than uniform IMO but that may be a preference thing. I like the layout of this hole a lot.
Hole 3: Bunkers are well sculpted. Again this is a preference visual thing, but I would recommend keeping bunkers similar style. The one front left is smooth all the way around and front right is much more jagged.
Hole 4: Another good layout. Middle tier of the green I feel is a little too small, but again, that;s preference. Would maybe have recommended some sort of planting in front of the green on that kind of steep edge down to the pond. Pond looks good.
Hole 5: Retaining wall itself looks good. Retaining walls are hard so good effort. I would have maybe just cleaned up the land over top of it a little bit. The edges of the pond are also a little steep, would have maybe tried to smooth them out a little bit or raise the pond level.
Hole 6: I like these tee shots thru the pines. They look nice. Good green complex. To this point, the best hole.
Hole 7: Another good tee shot/layout. Like 5, I think you should have raised the pond or smoothed out the edges. Maybe would have suggested some planting in between the levels of fairway as well.
Hole 8: Same deal with the pond, but I like the layout, bunkers, and green complex. Only critique I would have here is that there are a lot more bunkers than on some of the other holes, and it also looks nice to maintain consistency in my opinion (and of other reviews that I have seen).
Hole 9: Good layout. You do really well with the crowds and seating. I like the mounds on the left on the approach shot. Similar thing with the pond.
Hole 10: Similar thing with 2, pond/creek and uniformity of planting. Another good layout. I went aggressive and tried to drive the green, hit a fast swing and put it straight into the water.
Hole 11: Good short par 3. Played pretty easy, but thats not a problem. You have done well with varying difficulty of holes.
Hole 12: Only critique is that landing area is a little tight, but I think thats what you were going for.
Hole 13: I really like this hole design, forcing me to hit a fade. Pond level I think could have been raised again.
Hole 14: The pin I played was back left, so there was plenty of room to run the ball up, but idk with a front pin on a long par 3 like this if there would be enough room to try and run one up, since a longer club is very difficult to land and stick.
Hole 15: Fairway seems a little narrow for this type of hole.
Hole 16: I have liked your hole layouts until this one. Very narrow fairway. When I missed it and was in the heavy rough there was no way for me to reach the green, and no real punch out option was provided. I had to play a 40 yard flop with my lop wedge. Either the fairway needed to be significantly wider or you needed to provide some sort of better option for a layup.
Hole 17: Again, fairway seems to narrow for a long par 4.
Hole 18: I think the fairway might be too far away from the tee box here. A strong headwind may make it unreachable. Again, the seating and crowds are well done.
General Comments:
I think you are using brushes for greens, which is definitely okay, I just think that you've done this shape a couple of times now to the point where I noticed it. (I typed this on hole 13).
Pines were generally planted well, I think they could have been planted a little denser and I would have recommended varying size/shape a little more.
Fairways got a little narrow towards the end, but besides that I thought your layouts were good (besides 16).
Overall, pretty well done. Especially since I see this is your first post so like me you're probably pretty new to this. I have been watching a ton of videos of people's critiques and in addition to some of what I have been told myself and I tried to provide for you here. Hope that this helps!
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Post by karma4u on Dec 4, 2020 16:39:20 GMT -5
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