Post by mal on Dec 5, 2020 17:16:43 GMT -5
Harborside International Golf Club's Port course is located in Chicago, Illinois and plays at a par of 72 and measures 7159 from the back tees.
Harborside International's two exceptional courses, Port & Starboard, were designed by renowned architect Dick Nugent to bring this great tradition of links golf to Chicago. Two time Masters Champion Ben Crenshaw, during the Champions Tour stop here in 2002, compared Harborside to Muirfield in Scotland. Harborside's Port Course, which opened for play in 1995, immediately garnered national attention and has since been acclaimed as Chicago's top public course. This challenging course was designed in the true links tradition of windswept, Scottish, Irish and English seaside courses. While it may seem like you are playing a course built for The Open Championship, the spectacular views of Chicago's iconic skyline will remind you how close you are to home.
The fantastic finishing holes on the Port Course include the famed par 3 #15 "Anchor Hole" immediately followed by three holes bordering the harbor waters of Lake Calumet.
Golfweek, GolfNow and Golf Digest regularly rank the Port Course as one of the best public courses you can play in the state of Illinois.
This was started from a random request posted over on Reddit. I wasn't familiar with the the course, so after getting a little info from the OP and doing some research, it seemed like a fun course to make. The two courses intertwine on the 36 hole plot which made for some initial housekeeping challenges, but the layout process went quite smooth. Quite deep into the building process I encountered my first catastrophic error, one of the holes is missing it's fairway. No big deal, this should be an easy fix... Well the problem was that the fairway in question was mistakenly created as a "line" object spline in OSM, so I add the area tag, make it fairway, and done. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any way to bring in updated OSM data into a 2k21 course without it completely breaking the course when you try to play it. I could go into more detail about the further hours lost, but long story short, I ended up just making the fairway inside the designer with lots of alt-tab and google maps. I'm sure no one reads these designer notes, so on with the show.
This is a serious links-style course, and the "Anchor Hole" is more than just a novelty, it is actually a fantastic playing hole with an amazing green complex. The greens are set firm and fast, and you really want to play this with a Northeast wind at a medium or higher level. Here are some photos and I hope you enjoy a round or two. The Starboard course will be coming soon.
Harborside International's two exceptional courses, Port & Starboard, were designed by renowned architect Dick Nugent to bring this great tradition of links golf to Chicago. Two time Masters Champion Ben Crenshaw, during the Champions Tour stop here in 2002, compared Harborside to Muirfield in Scotland. Harborside's Port Course, which opened for play in 1995, immediately garnered national attention and has since been acclaimed as Chicago's top public course. This challenging course was designed in the true links tradition of windswept, Scottish, Irish and English seaside courses. While it may seem like you are playing a course built for The Open Championship, the spectacular views of Chicago's iconic skyline will remind you how close you are to home.
The fantastic finishing holes on the Port Course include the famed par 3 #15 "Anchor Hole" immediately followed by three holes bordering the harbor waters of Lake Calumet.
Golfweek, GolfNow and Golf Digest regularly rank the Port Course as one of the best public courses you can play in the state of Illinois.
This was started from a random request posted over on Reddit. I wasn't familiar with the the course, so after getting a little info from the OP and doing some research, it seemed like a fun course to make. The two courses intertwine on the 36 hole plot which made for some initial housekeeping challenges, but the layout process went quite smooth. Quite deep into the building process I encountered my first catastrophic error, one of the holes is missing it's fairway. No big deal, this should be an easy fix... Well the problem was that the fairway in question was mistakenly created as a "line" object spline in OSM, so I add the area tag, make it fairway, and done. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any way to bring in updated OSM data into a 2k21 course without it completely breaking the course when you try to play it. I could go into more detail about the further hours lost, but long story short, I ended up just making the fairway inside the designer with lots of alt-tab and google maps. I'm sure no one reads these designer notes, so on with the show.
This is a serious links-style course, and the "Anchor Hole" is more than just a novelty, it is actually a fantastic playing hole with an amazing green complex. The greens are set firm and fast, and you really want to play this with a Northeast wind at a medium or higher level. Here are some photos and I hope you enjoy a round or two. The Starboard course will be coming soon.