Blind Rabbit Golf Club (Dream Team)

[Crazycanuck1985]

Thanks to hickoryghost for the great pictures!

[yeltzman]

When i watched the preview video,i thought it would have been a better course without all the trees covering up other holes on the inside of the course, and after playing it view not really changed. Enjoyed my round but to me the course had the feel of a tgc2/tgc2019 course where i feel courses have moved on in 2k21,Just a personal view.....Still an amazing design just not for me playing on console without the flyover's.

[Crazycanuck1985]

Dec 6, 2020 10:35:49 GMT -5 yeltzman said:

When i watched the preview video,i thought it would have been a better course without all the trees covering up other holes on the inside of the course, and after playing it view not really changed. Enjoyed my round but to me the course had the feel of a tgc2/tgc2019 course where i feel courses have moved on in 2k21,Just a personal view.....Still an amazing design just not for me playing on console without the flyover's.

All good Yeltz, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Appreciate the playthrough!

[staypuft39]

I really liked it a lot. Planting and lighting/atmosphere are the obvious highlights. Really fun to play too.
I get the idea of "evolving" or going outside of one's comfort zone, but there's a ton of us that love the "Canuck" style courses. No need to deviate to some other style when you have one that is unique and creates great courses. In my opinion, anyway.

[yeltzman]

but there's a ton of us that love the "Canuck" style courses

You know what i never thought of that,very good point like i said i am unsure why certain styles of courses feel better in 2k21 than before always liked canuck's courses from the 1st he designed in tgc1 always been up there with my favourite fictional designer's.I just think i expect too much from canuck at times my bad.

[jwtexan]

It had to be maybe 6 months ago or so that waste bunker Andre got started a little with Avery and then more with the 3 sisters.

This look tops those for me. Great work and good luck. Sorry to see our blue team sabotage suggestion of building a creek didn’t delay you more

[playgroundhoo]

Dec 6, 2020 11:06:54 GMT -5 staypuft39 said:

I really liked it a lot. Planting and lighting/atmosphere are the obvious highlights. Really fun to play too.
I get the idea of "evolving" or going outside of one's comfort zone, but there's a ton of us that love the "Canuck" style courses. No need to deviate to some other style when you have one that is unique and creates great courses. In my opinion, anyway.

I am definitely looking forward to playing this and am slowly beginning to see strengths of many designers on here. I'm no judge, but Canuck's courses are a distinct, well-done experience. You'll never be let down on an enjoyable round with great visual appeal.

In addition, there now needs to be an official Logo Contest as a small, but fun Dream Team addendum. So many good ones!

[charliehustle]

Just got done playing Blind Rabbit on the Green Tees with the number 3 pins, using max distance clubs.

Blind Rabbit was visually appealing and very consistent in that respect, but not without flaws.  Too many bunkers and the waterfalls were low points.  I felt that bunkers were less placed for strategy and more for visual purposes; this is not limited to the waste bunkers.  Place enough bunkers and someone will hit one, right? But even then, I was able to use short irons and wedges on the vast majority of my approach shots anyway, so I wasn't too concerned with hitting any of the bunkers the majority of the time. Again, playing from the green tees.

The waterfalls were kind of silly because of the mist.  I am not even sure that you would get mist like that off of falls that short, but regardless, the mist was coming from the top of the falls and not the base.  The mist needed to be buried like you would bury a tree that you are trying to turn into a bush.  If you had buried the mist from at the proper distance you could have calibrated how much mist was being expelled and made it appear to come from where the water was crashing, not where it was originating.  That could have given the falls a little bit more of a natural look to them.  And then I had to see that damn mist from multiple locations...  yikes.

I also kind of felt that the waterways were a little bit overplanted.  Too much yellow grass.  Yellow grass against lush green surfaces, especially at that waterline seems odd to me. I would minimize that.  Because to me, grass that is yellow, signifies a lack of access to water and that was obviously not the case. I am sure that many will disagree with me on my take on the yellow grass and cite different species... it is what it is.

Outside of those things the course was very pleasant to play.  I also noticed that you toned down the planting in the distance of some of back nine holes and I really appreciated that aspect because every spot of land doesn't necessarily need a bush or a shrub assigned to it.  Just having the trees line the perimeter of the course was well enough.

Good luck with the contest Canuck, and thanks for putting out those awesome course design tutorial videos for the community.  I have learned a lot from them and I will put out a decent course EVENTUALLY.  lol

[virtualgolfer65]

Just finished my round and once again it's clear that this is a CrazyCanuckCreation.

The only thing that threw me was that there was a stream, which I believe was the most difficult part for him.

The planting is top-notch and the variety of colors that distracted me in a great way.  I found myself flying around the course to view the planting variety.

None of the holes really jumped out at me, but the par-3's were beautifully framed.

One of the difficulties for Canuck and the rest of these top designers is that we expect to be wowed again and again.  This course is beautiful, demands a variety of shot types, has open fairways, but will penalize faulty swings, in essences it has all of what you want in a top course.  Yet, some who play this might think, yeah but it should be fantastic!

The reality is that is fantastic and our desire to be wowed has perhaps been stunted by all of the amazing courses these designers have built.   Taking a step back I can say that I really enjoyed my round on Blind Rabbit and it was a comfortable round.  Of course, if I dialed up the green speed and a little wind, yikes this could be a humbling experience.

Well done Canuck and congrats on another great creation!

[ryanmcconnell]

[robn]

Some really in depth analysis going on here. 😆

Disappointed fanatics or what is going on?

I dont know why I thought about stalkers reading some of that.

[robn]

I had this rabbit by the *****, but she fought back!

[Deleted]

[Insert cliché rabbit joke or pun here], am I right?

 

It's awesome how quickly you made such a well crafted course. Red Team represent! Props Andre.  

[greenlightning]

I thought CC did a great job on this one.

[gova]

Thanks for a great looking course and enjoyable to play.

Cheers
Brian