Harleen Enchantress G.C. (2021 CC Contest)

[SirLeOssi]

Welcome on Harleen Enchantress G.C.

This course is by far the most emotional course i've ever created.
My  15 year old cat was doing very, very badly at the time I was building the course and it was not clear whether I would lose him forever.
For many weeks it was not clear how he would end up and whether he would be largely healthy again, but at the moment it looks very good and he is almost the same as before.
At this point, a big thank you again to everyone who stood by me and wished me good luck and get well soon for him! <3
And yet I shed many tears while I was building the course, especially when I built a small "memorial" for him near the clubhouse with his name "Stimpy".
I was very close to give up and dont finish this course jsimply because i ran out of ideas, i lost motivation and it was just a cramp to create something meaningful.
But hey, i finish the course and i hope people will like it.

The course itself is a 7298yd long Par 72 course in a swiss theme with some challenging shots and a nice looking nature.
Feel free and give it a go.

Required Elements:

At least one driveable par 4
At least one par 3 greater than 230 yards
At least two holes with zero bunkers
A double green (A hole having two different green sites)
At least three par 4s under 400 yards
At least two holes with a center-line hazard (tree, bunker, etc)

[kelownarumbler]

Looks very well done, beautiful setting. Giving it a go this evening!

[SirLeOssi]

Jul 22, 2021 21:10:02 GMT -5 kelownarumbler said:

Looks very well done, beautiful setting. Giving it a go this evening!

Much fun, hope you will have a goo dtime on it!

And thanks for give it a go, appreciate that! <3

[sebk]

SirLeOssi stunning work, sir! Glad to hear Stimpy is doing well! Group 5 is pumping them out already! Thank you for pushing through and getting this out for the community! Any and all of your work is so very much appreciated! Congrats and good luck in the comp!

[SirLeOssi]

Jul 22, 2021 21:56:16 GMT -5 sebk said:

SirLeOssi stunning work, sir! Glad to hear Stimpy is doing well! Group 5 is pumping them out already! Thank you for pushing through and getting this out for the community! Any and all of your work is so very much appreciated! Congrats and good luck in the comp!

Thanks buddy, appreciate your words and i hope that people will like the course. <3

[scootmcgoot]

Great setting, loved the environment you created. Holes played very solidly, good decisions to be made in places. Greens were very well done. Can definitely see this on tour and playing differently in some different conditions. Glad to hear Stimpy has made a nice recovery and doing well again! Well done!

[SirLeOssi]

Jul 23, 2021 4:58:24 GMT -5 scootmcgoot said:

Great setting, loved the environment you created. Holes played very solidly, good decisions to be made in places. Greens were very well done. Can definitely see this on tour and playing differently in some different conditions. Glad to hear Stimpy has made a nice recovery and doing well again! Well done!

Thanks for the little feedback, i allways love that!
Glad to hear that you enjoy your ride.

[indijesstion]

Great to hear Stimpy is doing better! Course looks nice! Hope to give it a play later today

[cd06]

Nice work David! Good to hear Stimpy is getting better

[axelvonfersen]

As the owner of a 14 year old furball, I'm glad to hear that Stimpy is doing well. Congrats on the publish - looks really good.

[xxchrisswift]

Looks great David,can't wait to have a round later.Glad stimpys feeling better 😺

[trailducker]

This ia a fun course and beautiful course! great job and good luck in the comp!

[SirLeOssi]

First of all, thank you all for giving this course a try!
For me that means a lot! <3

I also thinking about that this course will be the last course that i submit for TGCTours.com.
It always hurts that a course has just been approved and you don't know what's "bad" about this again course.
I watch some livestreams and see which courses are also approved and very often i can see why a course XY got the same advertising then mine.
I dont say that i create the best courses, off course i dont! So dont understand me wrong with that!
But it still feels strange to see some courses the have the same mark, its damn hard to explain.

Maybe its just because this course is something super special for me?
Maybe thats the reason why it hurts way more?
Idk.....Hum.

And for everyone who wished me all the best for my cat again, maybe I was too hasty when I told him it would be better.
Yesterday I went to the vet again because my cat still had a bump on his lower jaw where his teeth were pulled.
At the moment he loses a lot of saliva, eats little, looks out the tip of his tongue, sleeps very restlessly and sometimes hisses for no reason (probably because of the pain).
I thought it was still swollen from it, although it is atypical that it lasts so long.
Oh boy ....... It just looked really really good, he was on the best way and then another slap in the face.

However the visit to the vet brought extremely bad news.
The bump he has on his lower jaw is not just an inflammation and swelling because his teeth were pulled, no, it is a malignant bone tumor (osteosarcoma) that has made itself comfortable in his mouth.
After Stimpy stopped taking antibiotics, it started spreading.
He is now given somewhat stronger medication to reduce the tumor and make his life easier again, but if that doesn't work, then there is only one option .......... I think i dont have to say which solution that would be.

I can't describe how I'm doing now and how bad it all is, especially considering how well he was doing.
We had his thyroid disease under control, he put on weight again, the water that he had in his lungs is gone, his heart was beating better too, and then suddenly THAT.
I whisper in his ear several times a day how proud I am of him, that he is so brave and that I still need him. And then tears roll down my cheeks because I know that these words can't do much and that I'm just powerless to deal with the situation.

It`s by far the hardest situation in my whole life, not even the dead of my mom drives me that crazy, sounds hard, but its true.
It was always my wish that at some point he would fall asleep peacefully in my arm and not that I would have to make the decision to have to decide at some point.
But if the medication he's now being given doesn't work, I probably have no other choice and I have to redeem him.
Just as a reminder, i have him since 15 years and he is the best that happened to me, he is all what i love and what i need.
It's a pain in the ass, thats for sure.

And maybe nobody care about that, but i have to write it somewhere.
And it just fits best where it hit me the most, in the time I was building this course.

[sroel908]

I understand and can sympathize with pretty much everything said here - from the course approval side of things, to the difficulties of dealing with health issues of a furry friend.

Thank you for sharing how you feel, and for sharing your courses with all of us. Hoping all goes well for both you and Stimpy!

[coruler2]

Truly sorry about your cat. I'll be giving your course a play.