A Thought A Plea or A Question?

[PointedMarlin]

Designers/Community,

I don't know if this idea has been voiced before but I think with the amount of designers this website has & the wonderful resources out there for accurate mapping I can't see how as a community working together by the start of the new golf season - January we would not have in place a ton of the real world courses that the PGA Tour play on if designers were prepared to collaborate, which might mean swallowing some pride

My idea comes from only really playing this game at TGC Tours - I don't have time to play casual rounds - but when I do the first thing I look for is real course renditions & I played last night a Pebble Beach recreation & whilst I could see that yeah this was Pebble Beach there were a few things that I just wish the designer had done differently or just, in my opinion, got wrong - this isn't aimed at anyone here in particular I don't even know who designed the Pebble version I played

I thought if people, like this designer, who did a good job, would send his course off to say either of the 2 Craig's (as an example) then they could polish it up, before sending it back for publishing & it really would be better possibly outstanding

I appreciate this comes from a very naive viewpoint & this might actually require more work than I can possibly comprehend but I got to thinking that in business people work on projects before passing them up the chain for approval, altering & so forth 

How would this process be much different - apart from creating a lot of work for the better designers who may be vetting the courses I can't see a downside

If this idea were to work it would make sense to create a tour list of all the courses played & where decent renditions exist allocate that course & then fill in the gaps on a first come first served basis for people wishing to design a PGA recreation - no use having 15 Harbour Towns but no Scottsdale as an example

I'm sure there are so many good real world creations out there that I don't know about because of lack of time to play the mind boggles but if there was a way of coming up with a refining process like I hope I have described then surely a nearly full calendar can be organised by this community

Thoughts & can I be the first to post

TLDR 

[theclv24]

I believe I expressed something similar to this around December or January. Given an entire year, there is no way that we shouldn't have 80-90% of at least the PGA Tour courses created and ready to use next year.

Well, I'd have to say that just 4 months later, I'm not sure it's possible. I am still all in favor of collaborations to help complete real courses faster, but I've come to understand the subjectivity in creating real courses.

Not to toot my own horn, but I feel like I have a good eye for detail and can tell when something doesn't like exactly like it's real life counterpart. I've chatted with some other real course designers from time to time, either from them initiating contact with me or vice versa, and I've been surprised to see just how differently two different people can look at a course. Sometimes things that look way off to me look great to another designer. There just isn't a way around this.

And then there is the ever present issue of the time it takes to create these courses. Not many designers are willing to take the time to measure out the whole plot of a real course to ensure accuracy. It's much easier and quicker to design your own course and place things wherever you see fit, or even to create an approximation of a real course where you just kind of take a look at a few pictures and design the course based off of that.

Lastly, sharing course files requires the designers to be working on a PC, so that eliminates a large number who are on consoles.

The realest possible compromise would be finding a few pairs of PC designers who operate on the same "wavelength", so to speak, when it comes to course design and attention to detail. This would trim the design time by at least a little bit. Even with that said, I think the best we can hope for is another possibly 5-7 very good real course creations available by the end of 2015.

[williamhotel]

I have to agree that creating a "real" course is twice the work as a fictional course. I tried once to skimp on the measurements but then the course got way too far off from what it should of looked like and it just became fictional.
Also I am on PS4 and it takes much longer to complete holes because of the planting delay (3 to 6 seconds between).
However, it still is fun to recreate a course you see on TV though.