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Forest Legend @ KISS Tours
by Bob Hankla
| Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 1309 |
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Par |
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| 2003-07-10 |
44,362,944 bytes |
72 |
7007 yards |
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FICTIONAL |
WOODLAND |
legend2003.crz |
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LINKS CORNER REVIEW |
Reviewed by
Joe Turner `Loner'
July 2003
A portion of the read-me:
"This course started out as a real course recreation. It has a good layout, but the downfall has always been that since it was cut from a cornfield, it is very flat and has little in the way of trees or other vegetation to please the eye. About the time I got the front nine finished, I got real bored and almost gave up the project. Then one day I had the idea of turning the course into what I've often wished it could be, with hilly terrain and cut through a forest. After elevating a few holes and trying out the new planting scheme, I really liked what I saw. The layout has been modified to fit the new environment, but it still feels like a real course."
"About a month ago, Chris Gormley, the head of KISS Tours, asked the tour membership if any of the member designers had an interest in designing a new home course for the tour. I contacted Chris, and sent him the beta version I was testing at the time. He really liked the course, so it has now become the new home course for the tour."
An attractive course it starts off with heavily textured tee boxes, moves on to a fairway that is mowed in a checkerboard fashion with a first cut that makes the transition to the velvet like rough beautifully, it doesn't have the 'pencil line' blend as do many courses. The checkerboard greens with their realistic looking burnt spots are heavily textured also with an excellent blend into the rough or fairway. He has successfully achieved a very nice look to the grassy areas of the course. The tall and dark trees are most attractive and line the less than medium fairways menacingly. They have an undergrowth of short looking nameless grass in pine needles. Many of the fairways are slightly sloped and or undulate both if you can catch them in the right place give you quite a few extra yard-rolls. Bunkers, bunkers, bunkers, yes they are here both on the fairways and at the greens. They are placed just in the right or wrong areas, (depending on your outlook) and if not careful they will find you before you find them. The greens are well guarded by these little beauties and also by the small creek-streams that run off the water hazards, nicely placed if your approach falls just a little short. I found with all of the 5 par holes that they can be reached in 2 setting up the possibility of eagles and most likely birdie chances.
As Bob mentions in his read-me there are many and varied elevation changes. I found myself constantly adjusting the trajectory setting of my clubs for the maximum approach shots. Along with the ups-and-downs of the course you'll find the caddie will serve you well. As I said before the fairways are a fascinating experience with their rolls and banks. The greens were a little over-sloped for my liking but with easy pins and m/m conditions I enjoyed the heavy breaks. I had played this course earlier under harsher green conditions and found the greens to be difficult but fair. If you try the greens fast, firm, difficult, you're in for the ride of your life J.
He built a beautiful course that can be played in many ways. If you have easy conditions the course is a very pleasant round of golf with challenges, watch out for those few trees just off the tees, they can be in your way. But if you choose difficult settings you'll have a real challenge on your hands, an enjoyably one but a challenge indeed. The only part of the course that I didn't care for was the overall darkness of it, the combination of the trees and the rough made for a late-in-the-day look. His shadow file is huge and it makes the course look just like we had hoped for when we were told L2k3 now had shadows. He also used to its utmost the seam blending and the rough textures that come with the 1.5 APCD. A most enjoyable course any way you play it and for its size, even with the sounds of assorted birds in the background, it a fairly small download. I wholeheartedly recommend this course for a download, play and enjoy it.
I am a player not a designer and therefore rate a course as player for other players.
Reviewer Note:
I am a player not a designer and therefore rate a course as a player for other players.
Summary :
Included: read-me, recorded round, cameo, splash, hole previews, signs and numbers, cart path, custom flag, ball washers, crowds, buildings, tournament objects and other objects.
Not Included: custom tees.
Statistical Information: par 72, 7007y, 4 sets of tees, 4-3 pars, 10-4 pars, 4-5 pars. |
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