Time for some more LiDAR - Ballyhack

[sandgroper]

After completing my Island course I wanted to get back into LiDAR and try something interesting with some elevation.
One of the holes from my last course was spotted on a google search and had me intrigued, this photo here.



So I went about trying to recreate it as the 9th on my course and only later found out it was the 5th at Ballyhack.
There was a version in '21 but it needed some love. No offense, but LiDAR is more than taking some elevation data sticking OSM over it and hitting publish.

So after getting the LiDAR data and OSM data and sticking them through the 19/21/23 process I've come up with what looks like a very exciting course. 

As it sits today I've done nothing more than map out the holes and stick 3 tee boxes down true to the original lengths. Oh and build 153 bunkers from an assortment of shapes using Stealth to map out the original shapes as much as you can with the designer constraints.

Scorecard

It has a clubhouse 

The course so far looks like...

The 5th 

The 10th 

The 13/15 green complex 

The 18th 

As for the greens, they are on the wild side. This is the 1st at 146...



Onwards...

[blueblood1995]

Looking forward to your version of Ballyhack. That photo of no. 5 is insane. I recall looking at a Google Maps overhead of this course and although I knew the area was hilly did not expect an approach to a hole to be quite like that. That must be at least a 3 club-up shot ?? Good luck with the remainder of the design.

[b101]

Looking forward to following along. FYI, this is the sort of course where you want around 120 greens at maximum.

[sandgroper]

Jul 26, 2023 3:20:58 GMT -5 b101 said:

Looking forward to following along. FYI, this is the sort of course where you want around 120 greens at maximum.

Thanks Ben, I’ve started designing them at 186 and they would have the 9 box rule, but that’s about it!
One thing I haven’t tried is at 110 to see how yellow the red slopes get. 

[BaconJunkie1]

Sandgroper let me play an early version and I'm not saying that the course is hilly or anything but there is a sign on the 1st tee that says "You must be this high to ride this ride" and them greens are angry.  

[jeffreyb]

haw man, looking forward to this one that for sure

[erock131]

This looks great, looking forward to trying this course.

[bubbadave]

What is the stealth program you use?

[sandgroper]

Aug 7, 2023 11:54:26 GMT -5 bubbadave said:

What is the stealth program you use?

Hey bubbadave, check it out here tgctours.proboards.com/thread/33879/struggling-bunkers-irl-courses

[skunky123]

i did a lidar version a couple of years ago,the day i finished it up ,i had a major pc crash and lost it completely! glad to see someone is doing it now ,its a great track.

[sandgroper]

A little update to how things are going. Front 9 is planted with heavy rough grasses.
Meter is only at 43% but file size is at 68%. It's obvious that planting the same grass eats up the file size. Currently 7.1Mb

2nd green


7th green


8th fairway


8th green


9th tee


Feedback welcome...

[sirdumas]

Looks like a fun course. This might help

[sandgroper]

Thanks for the video. They have a hole by hole on their website so I’ve been studying it thoroughly.

[jeffreyb]

that looks gorgeous...looking forward to this beauty... great job brother

[sandgroper]

It's achingly close...