| Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 1988 |
Release Date |
CRZ Filesize |
Par |
Course Length |
| 2011-02-03 |
78,153,338 bytes |
72 |
7255 yards |
| Type |
Style |
CRZ Filename |
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FICTIONAL |
WOODLAND |
The Diamond Club.crz |
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| COURSE NOTES |
The Diamond Club
A front nine of 3794 yds and a back nine of 3461 yds.
A total of 7255 yds and a par of 72. The course has 4 par 3s, 4 par 5s and 10 par 4s. The course has lots of water.
We would like to thank Jerry for letting his AI guys check the course out.
Thanks to Terrell and the LSPN non-req league for playing a tourney with the course.
And thanks to everyone who helped with things from advice to textures.
Doug and Karen |
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CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson (ousgg) |
Description
Fictional, woodland course |
Location
No location given – best estimate, based on the designers’ previous, would
be the North-Central or Midwest states. |
Conditions
Some inconsistent greening makes S*/M* your safe choice. |
Concept 6/10
Another of those courses from the Montgomery team that is slightly hard to pin down, possibly even for the designers. As usual, there's
the usual mix of creative but straightforward hole design, with the occasional misjudgement thrown in - the 8th being particularly silly in this
case. The Diamond Club at least offers a balanced challenge and some expansive greens which, along with a visually impressive opening
stretch, is just enough to pull it above the mediocre. |
Appearance 5/10
Possibly the best quality about all the output from these designers is the consistency with which their courses are laid out in a realistic and
believable fashion in authentic surroundings. At least, that is, until you start looking too closely. Then it's just a bit too easy to pick up on
some hard water lines, some elevation changes which are difficult to credit, textures which are off-colour, and a lot of clones far away
trying to fill space. The rockworks take some loving as well. The overall impression, as has sadly often been the case, is that of slight
rushedness. |
Playability 8/10
Apart from the occasional frustrating hole or blind shot, this is a delightful warm-up course, with a real work-out required of different
shots and clubs if you are to attack the course. And, to be fair, it's a course that invites aggressiveness: there has been some really
meticulous planning in this layout. |
Challenge 7/10
The expansive greens will soak up 2-putts quite nicely, and the sprinkling of suitable hazarding feels well-judged. There's little by way
of really heavy rough, when a fairly wild course such as this would clearly benefit from some. It was also a bit disappointing to find the
closing stretch was markedly easier than the opening holes. |
Technical 5/10
A typically mixed bag - there is some really good-quality basic design applied here, but it's not really supported by the visuals and the
designers' insistence on putting in the occasional wacky hole. I still have the nagging problem that there's too much of a 'course
factory' going on here, with not enough to distinguish this from earlier releases. |
| Overall |
More than a handful of good holes nestling in a lot of ambiguity and wooliness. |
31/50 |
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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