| Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 1669 |
Release Date |
CRZ Filesize |
Par |
Course Length |
| 2006-05-03 |
50,499,584 bytes |
72 |
7243 yards |
| Type |
Style |
CRZ Filename |
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FICTIONAL |
PARKLAND |
Stanley Park Golf Club_locked.crz |
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CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson (ousgg) |
Description
Fictional, parkland course. |
Location
TBA |
Conditions
TBA |
Concept 6/10
Stanley Park is largely an authentic and conventionally laid out course,
that only occasionally suffers from visual problems or a gimmicky hole
design. It's a shame, because there's a genuine atmosphere in the open
and inviting location and it's clear that plenty of hard work has been
applied. Perhaps just a little more study in the field of course architecture
would be to the benefit of designer and player alike. |
Appearance 7/10
A variety of superb texture choices are blended expertly and planted with a gentle hand, making the surface look as good as any on
links. Sadly, on upper levels, there is less to praise. The trees planted are an odd mixture, occasionally clone, and the panorama is
expertly done but doesn't quite match the foreground. A couple of water features look totally unnatural and out of place. For all this, the
course is reasonably good looking, but you get the impression it might have benefited from a more thorough Beta test. |
Playability 6/10
This purports to be a strategic course, but is much more closely akin to the target golf ideal. It's fun in short bouts, but too often you'll
find yourself playing a gentle flop-shot approach with little other thought to the alternatives. The risk/reward aspects to the Par 5s have
not been realistically assessed and they may as well be lengthy Par 4s. |
Challenge 3/10
With wide-open areas of undemanding rough, ineffective hazarding (except on the Par 3s) and surprisingly easy to read greens,
Stanley Park shouldn't confront many players too harshly. Eagle opportunities are commonplace and bogeys are really quite difficult to
obtain. While this is a course that has clearly been built for accessibility, it hasn't had the demands and constraints upon the Links
golfer taken into account, and you will find it all too easy as a result. |
Technical 7/10
The designer has shown a good range of artistic and APCD skills, although to be honest there are areas of this course that need a
complete overhaul if it is to make it into the elite group of courses. Nevertheless, what has been done is praiseworthy and shows a flair
for the APCD which rightly should be extended to other new and exciting courses. |
| Overall |
An open and unthreatening course with a lot going for it in terms of interesting golf.
Becomes problematic on some holes where the designer was clearly a bit stuck for
ideas but, creditably, never becomes unbelievable. |
29/50 |
Please remember that Clipnote reviews are the opinion of one person and do not constitute an 'Official' Links Corner review of the course. |
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