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Post by daddyjules on Jun 4, 2015 13:34:10 GMT -5
Check out majorhighs countryside themed links course, currently under beta testing but think it has alot of potential jclrb1.2
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Post by poobley on Jun 4, 2015 13:58:07 GMT -5
Remember, the main reason The Open greens are slower than the other majors is purely because of the wind at the links courses. If the winds get up, which they do a LOT, the balls would never stay on the green. Not a problem we have with TGC which means there's not much reason why we shouldn't have fairly fast greens for The Open. That's one reason yes, but another is that they have firm ground with big contours. Big contouring won't work with fast greens. Needs to be medium (10 on the stimp) maximum really. Also, if you have a big tail wind it will be hard to hold the greens with fast greens. I read an article on Royal County Down last week. It said they have to keep watering the greens to slow them down because they were expecting huge winds. Think they usually have 10.5 speed but because of expected winds of 20mph+ wanted them at 10 highest. Only one green runs front to back there and is a 130 yard par 3 with a bunker guarding the front so obviously this green is hard to hold, with a 20mph+ tail wind anything above medium makes it impossible. Where are you finding this information on St. Andrews?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2015 18:07:20 GMT -5
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Post by poobley on Jun 4, 2015 18:58:29 GMT -5
Ah sweet man. I thought you were talking about st andrews with the par 3 that slopes front to back. I was thinking i need this information lol but it was for royal county down.
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Post by edi_vedder on Jun 4, 2015 19:01:28 GMT -5
Check out majorhighs countryside themed links course, currently under beta testing but think it has alot of potential jclrb1.2 I played one of (t)his beta versions lately (as he asked me to do), and it was a fantastic & challenging course. But I didn't feel like I'm playing an "The Open"-course somehow. Just my personal opinion. But that doesn't mean it couldn't be used for it. Unfortunately not. I wish there was (as I always loved to play the course on any video game). So good luck to poobley trying to recreate it. I might be wrong, but this could be one of the big announcements coming today. What you think?
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Post by edi_vedder on Jun 4, 2015 23:46:06 GMT -5
Well... I was almost right.
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Post by mlhartzell on Jun 4, 2015 23:51:37 GMT -5
I was wondering this aswell. Definitely needs to be a links course or else what's the point. Are there any good St Andrews recreations? I was wanting to start one but lacking sufficient information to give it justice. The Royal Troon rendition is excellent, check it out if you haven't
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Post by mcbogga on Jun 5, 2015 3:02:30 GMT -5
The problem with TGC and links golf is that balls don't roll out enough in the fairways, and then they roll out too much on the green. You have to hit a shot perfectly to land it in the fairway, roll out a little, and then barely trickle on to the green where it then races off. I feel that's honestly one of the most unrealistic parts of this game as lower shots can run out much more short of the green and they don't race off once they do trickle on to the green. I feel like that makes it tough to be effective with a links course and firmness, but we'll see. Yeah, that same fairway-glue effect also means that run off / collection areas have to be exagerrated a lot for them to work anywhere close to real life. We should start a petition to stop pouring glue on the fairways or at least start cutting them to proper height over at HB.
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Post by poobley on Jun 5, 2015 5:00:44 GMT -5
Just played "The Open St. Andrews Thursday" and it was actaully the best rendition of St andrews I have played so far. Rather enjoyed my round. It has the rolling lumps and bumps you expect. Quite alot of blind tee shots which i cannot remember them being that many but cannot be 100% sure.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2015 7:43:02 GMT -5
Ah sweet man. I thought you were talking about st andrews with the par 3 that slopes front to back. I was thinking i need this information lol but it was for royal county down. Here's the royal county down article. Firm but medium greens for sure. If medium equals 10 on the stimp that is. Wish we knew.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2015 7:52:24 GMT -5
Wow just saw a post on hb forums.
0 on the scale is 4.5ft. 100 on the scale is 8.5ft. So firm and fast indeed haha.
Unless you want it in comparison to other courses in the game then go for firm conditions, medium speed.
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Post by auldy on Jun 5, 2015 8:04:54 GMT -5
Country side themed links shouldn't even be considered for a British links event, I played last weeks Irish open and it was a poor choice of course/theme. If you live in Ireland it's either links or parkland regardless if the parkland runs beside the sea, if it's not sand based its not links. I might be wrong but this might be an American thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2015 8:14:48 GMT -5
I agree Auldy. Has to be links theme.
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