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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2015 3:48:12 GMT -5
Just watching this at the moment. A universally praised course. It has 6 blind tee shots. I know that's frowned upon amongst the community, what are people's thoughts on this? Personally, I love them BUT there has to be a visual guide (tree, bunker, mound etc) so you know roughly where you are aiming at. Also, 20mph winds currently. Great links challenge, we need courses like this. Thoughts?
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mlhartzell
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Post by mlhartzell on May 28, 2015 13:43:56 GMT -5
Just watching this at the moment. A universally praised course. It has 6 blind tee shots. I know that's frowned upon amongst the community, what are people's thoughts on this? Personally, I love them BUT there has to be a visual guide (tree, bunker, mound etc) so you know roughly where you are aiming at. Also, 20mph winds currently. Great links challenge, we need courses like this. Thoughts? 6 Blind tee shots certainly aren't a problem for me, especially in the setting of a links course. In fact, in real life, you don't have the luxury you have in the game of using the aiming camera to lock in on a target so I think people should lighten up. I've played Royal County Down, Port Rush, Old Head, Ballybunion. County Down and Old Head are my favs. All amazing courses though. 20 mph winds are fun to play in real life if you can hit the ball low and control your trajectory. On the game, these winds seems unpredictable , and have been pretty frustrating for me. That being said, once winds are same for everyone, I'd certainly welcome it. |
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Post by aitchleague on May 30, 2015 4:31:46 GMT -5
I agree with the above I don't have a problem with a few blind shots on courses in the game, but there seems to be an obsession with criticising them for some reason. The default view in the game is quite a low one so unless you limit your designing to having almost no rising ground in front of you you're almost always going to get some anyway. With a shot preview button to use you can always get a good view of where you're going so what's the problem. You don't want too many blind shots of course and it's always nice to stand on the tee with a nice panorama in front of you, but lets have some diversity a few blind tee shots is fine.
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Post by aitchleague on May 30, 2015 4:35:28 GMT -5
I agree with the above I don't have a problem with a few blind shots on courses in the game, but there seems to be an obsession with criticising them for some reason. The default view in the game is quite a low one so unless you limit your designing to having almost no rising ground in front of you you're almost always going to get some anyway. With a shot preview button to use you can always get a good view of where you're going so what's the problem. You don't want too many blind shots of course and it's always nice to stand on the tee with a nice panorama in front of you, but lets have some diversity a few blind tee shots is fine.
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Post by jwfickett on May 30, 2015 7:28:56 GMT -5
The original crticism of blind tee shots came from the early access days when designers would just plop down a tee box and the location would leave a huge autogen mound like 10 feet in front of the player due to no care taken to pick strategic locations for tee boxes or lazyness of not sculpting down. There is no point in that. However, there is real value in a blind tee shot that is well crafted. People just get carried away with them sometimes.
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Post by mjhamilton113 on Jun 3, 2015 13:31:41 GMT -5
I am in the process of designing a golf course inspired by Old Head. Blind shots are a staple of links style golf
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Post by mlhartzell on Jun 5, 2015 14:31:31 GMT -5
I am in the process of designing a golf course inspired by Old Head. Blind shots are a staple of links style golf Anyone who has a big problem with blind tee shots should take it up with this guy  |
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Post by BIELSALUFC on Jun 25, 2015 8:57:26 GMT -5
I am in the process of designing a golf course inspired by Old Head. Blind shots are a staple of links style golf |
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