| Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 1838 |
Release Date |
CRZ Filesize |
Par |
Course Length |
| 2008-06-27 |
56,979,456 bytes |
72 |
6468 yards |
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CRZ Filename |
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REAL |
PARKLAND |
FBCC Beta.crz |
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| COURSE NOTES |
I started playing golf on this course when I was 3 because my parents were members back in the 60s and 70s. I recorded my first birdie when I was 10 on the 8th hole. This course shows much of the design character when the courses was designed. Very small and domed greens and tree lined, narrow fairways.
I started this course as a way to see how I could use an overhead map to help lay out the holes. This was very helpful for basic hole layout and also for tree placement. This course is still fairly basic, but seeing that it has been on my hard drive for awhile, I thought I would release it as a beta so see if it was any fun to play.
Thank you for any feed back and supporting us lesser designers.
Tim Boche |
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CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson (ousgg) |
Description
Real, estate course |
Location
TBC |
Conditions
TBC |
Concept 6/10
A plum little country club, Faribault won't - I think it's fair to say - knock
anyone's socks off, but there is room to admire what has been done
with the space. Good hole sequencing allows a comfortable start to
build into steadily more challenging golf, and the final hole is a clever
piece of understated design. The course has been given a loving lease
of life in Links, and the designer has injected a few little extra touches
to ensure that it's not just 'another course'. |
Appearance 7/10
The clubhouse complex has had time lavished over it, and has 3D construction to compare to many bigger names. The course itself is
tidily blended, although the textures do feel a bit too pristine for this setting. Cloned trees are fairly rife, and the planting does suffer
from appearing to be something of an afterthought. |
Playability 6/10
Like Tim's other creations, part of the charm of playing Faribault is knowing that you are sharing a course that is very important to a
Links designer. This just doesn't happen with the big tournament venues, and this track captures much of the charm that a Medinah or
Olympia Fields never could. Sure, there's a bit to be desired in the narrow fairways and the one-route nature of most holes, but in
some ways this isn't so much about the golf as just being there. |
Challenge 4/10
There's been a clever realisation that many 'local' courses don't exactly present much challenge in links, and the texture properties of
the rough have been cleverly adjusted to represent this. The tiny, heavily gradiented greens are not exactly player-friendly either, but
so many shots will be played off a flat lie that setting up birdie after birdie is really no more than routine. |
Technical 7/10
Credit has to be given to the designer for going the extra step or two when it would have been easy to release a course without frills.
The 3D work and the texture work are proof enough of this. If only something similar was done about the planting! |
| Overall |
A creditable effort to give that little something extra to one's local course. A
pleasing little piece of whimsy. |
30/50 |
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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