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Post by foolinjection on Oct 18, 2015 13:40:50 GMT -5
Okay, so this isn't really a Tip or Trick but it didn't really fit in the other GNCD forums either. I thought some of you might find in interesting though so I'll post it but if it needs moved etc by the Mods; fair play. I was going through some stuff at my parents house recently and found an old double VHS cassette from 1993 of a documentary called "A Fairway to Heaven". In it a team of experts including golfers Jack Nicklaus, Tom Weiskopf, Gary Player, Ben Crenshaw, Pete Dye, to name a few have put together the "perfect" 18 hole golf course. I remember watching this as a kid with my Grandfather, it was narrated by Alex Hay who was Peter Alliss' co-commentator for many a year at the BBC. I have a USB TV box for converting VHS tapes which I'm going to run it though so I can watch it again but handily it has the holes of the course listed on the inside. They are as follows :- | Hole | Par |
| Course | | 1 | 4 | | Machrihanish Golf Club, Scotland | | 2 | 4 |
| Pine Valley, USA | | 3 | 5 | | Durban, South Africa | | 4 | 3 | | National Golf Links, USA | | 5 | 4 | | Royal Portrush, N. Ireland | | 6 | 4 | | Royal Melbourne, Australia | | 7 | 3 | | San Francisco Golf Club, USA | | 8 | 4 | | Pebble Beach Golf Links, USA | | 9 | 5 | | Muirfield, Scotland | | OUT | 36 |
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| | 10 | 4 | | Riviera Golf Club, USA | | 11 | 4 | | Ballybunion Old Course, Rep. Ireland | | 12 | 3 | | Woodhall Spa Golf Club, England | | 13 | 5 | | The Augusta National, USA | | 14 | 4 | | Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Scotland | | 15 | 5 | | Hirono Golf Club, Japan | | 16 | 3 | | Cypress Point Club, USA | | 17 | 4 | | St. Andrews Old Course, Scotland | | 18 | 4 | | Royal Lytham & St. Annes, England | | IN | 36 |
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I remember the video being pretty interesting, taking you through each hole and why it was chosen. Each hole is that respective numbered hole on it's original course and I remember they said they could only pick one hole from each course. So no 13th and say the 16th from Augusta National. What are your thoughts on the choices they made though? That course would probably provide quite the challenge in The Golf Club should it ever be faithfully re-created. I would try myself but I'd never be able to do it any justice. |
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Post by edi_vedder on Oct 18, 2015 18:31:48 GMT -5
It's impossible to re-create that "course" in the GNCD unfortunately, as it would require the usage of different themes within one course.
Apart from that, it's a great list including some of the greatest holes this sport has to offer.
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Post by foolinjection on Oct 19, 2015 3:23:04 GMT -5
It's impossible to re-create that "course" in the GNCD unfortunately, as it would require the usage of different themes within one course. I'm not so sure it is impossible. If you picked one theme you could do it. I'd thought if you used say the new Highlands theme in conjunction with the new surfaces you can place, you could probably arrive at a good approximation of it. The video features hole overheads of each hole which they have laid out on a hand drawn map showing how the 18 hole course would be routed. I'll see if I can screen grab and stitch them all together to let people see the routing. I'm no expert at the GNCD like I said but I think if you just picked one theme and varied the planting you could get close. The only thing you would be missing really would be the tree variation from location to location. I'm half tempted to try routing this and giving it a shot but I know I would never be able to do it the justice it deserves. |
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Post by foolinjection on Oct 19, 2015 4:04:39 GMT -5
Here's the overhead. Apologies for the varying quality.  |
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Post by gdog on Oct 20, 2015 0:40:02 GMT -5
Okay, so this isn't really a Tip or Trick but it didn't really fit in the other GNCD forums either. I thought some of you might find in interesting though so I'll post it but if it needs moved etc by the Mods; fair play. I was going through some stuff at my parents house recently and found an old double VHS cassette from 1993 of a documentary called "A Fairway to Heaven". In it a team of experts including golfers Jack Nicklaus, Tom Weiskopf, Gary Player, Ben Crenshaw, Pete Dye, to name a few have put together the "perfect" 18 hole golf course. I remember watching this as a kid with my Grandfather, it was narrated by Alex Hay who was Peter Alliss' co-commentator for many a year at the BBC. I have a USB TV box for converting VHS tapes which I'm going to run it though so I can watch it again but handily it has the holes of the course listed on the inside. They are as follows :- | Hole | Par |
| Course | | 1 | 4 | | Machrihanish Golf Club, Scotland | | 2 | 4 |
| Pine Valley, USA | | 3 | 5 | | Durban, South Africa | | 4 | 3 | | National Golf Links, USA | | 5 | 4 | | Royal Portrush, N. Ireland | | 6 | 4 | | Royal Melbourne, Australia | | 7 | 3 | | San Francisco Golf Club, USA | | 8 | 4 | | Pebble Beach Golf Links, USA | | 9 | 5 | | Muirfield, Scotland | | OUT | 36 |
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| | 10 | 4 | | Riviera Golf Club, USA | | 11 | 4 | | Ballybunion Old Course, Rep. Ireland | | 12 | 3 | | Woodhall Spa Golf Club, England | | 13 | 5 | | The Augusta National, USA | | 14 | 4 | | Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Scotland | | 15 | 5 | | Hirono Golf Club, Japan | | 16 | 3 | | Cypress Point Club, USA | | 17 | 4 | | St. Andrews Old Course, Scotland | | 18 | 4 | | Royal Lytham & St. Annes, England | | IN | 36 |
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I remember the video being pretty interesting, taking you through each hole and why it was chosen. Each hole is that respective numbered hole on it's original course and I remember they said they could only pick one hole from each course. So no 13th and say the 16th from Augusta National. What are your thoughts on the choices they made though? That course would probably provide quite the challenge in The Golf Club should it ever be faithfully re-created. I would try myself but I'd never be able to do it any justice. Sounds like an awesome doc. Any chance of uploading it somewhere? |
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Post by foolinjection on Oct 20, 2015 15:15:28 GMT -5
Sounds like an awesome doc. Any chance of uploading it somewhere? I could certainly look into that however I would be mindful of the copyright issues of doing so. |
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Post by roblandon on Oct 21, 2015 19:23:56 GMT -5
Sounds like an awesome doc. Any chance of uploading it somewhere? I could certainly look into that however I would be mindful of the copyright issues of doing so. If you do have issues could you pm it to people if they want to see it? i would definately be interested. I tried googling it and all that came up was some dodgy teen movie from 2007 lol. |
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Post by foolinjection on Oct 24, 2015 9:43:11 GMT -5
I'm away on holiday just now for a couple of days but when I get back I'll see how I can put it up somewhere.
If I thought I could just upload it to YouTube without getting my account removed for copyright reasons it would be real simple. >__<
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Post by gdog on Oct 24, 2015 14:05:08 GMT -5
I'm away on holiday just now for a couple of days but when I get back I'll see how I can put it up somewhere. If I thought I could just upload it to YouTube without getting my account removed for copyright reasons it would be real simple. >__< Just throw the file up on mega.nz and pm us the link Thank you sir. |
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