Design League 4, Contest #2

[trailducker]

Contest #2 - Fair Play - March 29th - April 26th:

Contest Challenge:

Build 6 (2200 Yard Minimum) strategically sculpted holes with only Fairways and greens.

• No Sand or water hazards, no Plants, no rough (or bare earth) patches are permitted inside the perimeter of the course.
  
• Holes along the outside perimeter can have rough, bare ground or waste bunkers (not manicured bunkers) against it to that single side.
• Plantings, buildings and any other off course items can be along the perimeter sides as well.

Judging:

You will be judged on:
- Aesthetics
- Technical Execution
- Individual Hole Strategy
as well as
- How well you sculpt your fairways and greens to influence strategy.

This contest is really about sculpting. With no hazards or rough you have to create a strategy on each hole from creative sculpting of the land. Be mindful as well to not overdo it. You will be judged on poor sculpting that makes a green too penal or a fairways surface unnecessarily unplayable. Also do your best to create variety through the six holes in clubs used and types of shots requested of the golfer. Other startegic things to focus on include falter lie vs. slopped lie, best angle into the green slopes vs. one where the slopes make the shot more difficult, blindness vs. visibility, length vs. laying up, ect..

Precedents:

There isn’t really a course I know of that does this but some courses with large interconnected fairways to give a play:

• Ransom Ranch - whodatmatt34 (2K21)
  
• Usonia Links - grovey31 (2K21)

Instructions:

You may begin now! When you are completed please comment in this thread and tag myself. Please title the course “DL4.2_[Forum name]” when you publish. Greens must have 4 pins. The judging is for 6 holes and 6 holes only. If you make any more holes you will only be judged on the first 6.

All courses must be published by April 26th 11 pm PST. I will go by when you post in the forums to check this.

HAVE FUN AND BE CASUAL!

Entries:

DL4.2_bobbyj - bobbyj  - 2nd Place
DL4.2_brenditoor123 - BrendanOR123  - 3rd Place
Dl4.2 crossers7 - crossers7  - 4th Place
DL4.2 InThis Style - InThisStyle  - 1st Place
DL4.2 MapCollector - mapcollector  - Top 10
DL4.2 strzalkowskia - strzalkowskia  - Top 10
DL4.2 terpshoops - terpshoops  - 5th Place
dl4.2 tracland - tracland  - Top 10

[BrendanOR123]

In relation to the name, is it DL4.1 or DL4.2? Seen as it is round 2

[trailducker]

Mar 29, 2023 10:40:06 GMT -5 BrendanOR123 said:

In relation to the name, is it DL4.1 or DL4.2? Seen as it is round 2

Yes 4.2. Forgot to correct that

[tracland]

I’m assuming this means no objects of any type (other than on the course edge) so the only things allowed are fairways and greens. Am I correct?

[tracland]

Also when it says outside perimeter limited to one’s side I’m assuming this can go all the way round the outside of a loop if the course is a loop returning to the starting location?

[trailducker]

Correct on both. There’s a perimeter and all holes along the perimeter will have the planting and other objects along one side but any holes adjacent it’s only fairway allowed. And any holes not on the perimeter will be just sculpted fairway and green.

[trailducker]

So if you want to create just a circle you can but think is that creative enough that it would do well in this competition? So that’s all up to you as the designer.

[tracland]

Well maybe not a circle but wanted to check if I had two adjacent holes then the outside perimeter of both could be planted.

[tracland]

I never finish these things anyway so not sure why I’m asking questions.

[tracland]

I never finish these things anyway so not sure why I’m asking questions.

[trailducker]

Mar 29, 2023 12:28:34 GMT -5 tracland said:

I never finish these things anyway so not sure why I’m asking questions.

There’s a first time for everything!

[fargo]

Regarding the allowed planting around the perimeter - is it permissable for the perimeter stuff to be intrinsic to the strategy of the hole, or is it just for aesthetics? i.e. can we use OB, or perimeter rough / planting / waste bunkering as a hazard, or should it all be well outside the normal landing zones?

[trailducker]

Mar 29, 2023 19:15:59 GMT -5 fargo said:

Regarding the allowed planting around the perimeter - is it permissable for the perimeter stuff to be intrinsic to the strategy of the hole, or is it just for aesthetics? i.e. can we use OB, or perimeter rough / planting / waste bunkering as a hazard, or should it all be well outside the normal landing zones?

Yes, in fact that’s probably beneficial

[whatgrenadewhere]

When you say no Plants, does that include trees? And no rough inside the perimeter of the course? So a big fairway surface with six holes?  Edit: can we still do 9 holes or strictly 6?

[trailducker]

Mar 30, 2023 10:56:10 GMT -5 whatgrenadewhere said:

When you say no Plants, does that include trees? And no rough inside the perimeter of the course? So a big fairway surface with six holes?  Edit: can we still do 9 holes or strictly 6?

Correct a big fairway surface with greens, using only Sculpting within it to dictate strategy.

You can make 9 holes but judges will only judge the first 6 holes.