| Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 2026 |
Release Date |
CRZ Filesize |
Par |
Course Length |
| 2011-07-01 |
200,810,496 bytes |
72 |
7325 yards |
| Type |
Style |
CRZ Filename |
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FICTIONAL |
PARKLAND |
Ammolite at Old Man River Final_locked.crz |
| Course ID |
Course Key |
| 8c5e673b7c414e8583c937a2ba903b07 |
d5a2a1ecf6bdbf0ee5f565c33b8f0f3e |
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CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson (ousgg) |
Description
Fictional, canyon course |
Location
Mid-Canada |
Conditions
I wouldn't venture beyond M*/S*, thanks to some poor pin positioning. |
Concept 8/10
Ammolite has intriguing and novel views around the course, including all manner of course buildings from the extravagant to the down-at-heel, and there as certainly been an effort to produce something original. The holes that go with this surround are exciting, if somewhat derivative: the influences
of Bethpage and Medinah are very apparent, and the general tone does stray away from feasible in places. |
Appearance 7/10
There's some really ambitious landscaping here, not least in the towering, atmospheric panorama with its signature canyon bridge. A
delightful eye for customisation and planting complements it down on the plot. But there is a lot of blurriness hanging around, some
stretched textures around some of the bunkers, and a poor choice of scheme for the running water features makes them look very old-fashioned. |
Playability 8/10
Enough good fantasy holes here to have people coming back for more, but there is also quite a lot of subtlety, most of all on the front
nine, where good placement and course management very much take precedence over grandstanding and over-the-top hole designs.
It's a course good enough to stand on its own merits without slipping into excess later in the round. |
Challenge 6/10
Despite some pretty heavy green slopes, I found it reasonably easy to approach pins at Ammolite, and - even on the basis of a couple
of rounds - have already had a number of approaches within five feet. It's certainly no breeze: there's plenty of potential to get buried
in the woods and darkness, but even then you get a reprieve, as there is playable terrain even in what might be the roughest of
hazards on other courses. With a good recovery game, you can expect to rescue par more often than not. |
Technical 7/10
There are still some rough edges to this course, but given that it's still in Beta testing at the time of writing, perhaps this should be
accounted for. It's certainly easy to overlook the need for some more texture work in favour of the rich imagination and golfing design
that has gone into this course. Definitely Lonnie's most exciting work to date. |
| Overall |
A new and distinctive look does a lot for this course, and it's an intriguing
exploration. |
36/50 |
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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