| Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 2059 |
Release Date |
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Course Length |
| 2012-03-10 |
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72 |
7500 yards |
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FICTIONAL |
WOODLAND |
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CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson (ousgg) |
Description
Fictional, mountain course |
Location
There are no clues from the designers, but the woods and undergrowth have
the faint ring of Canadian courses. |
Conditions
Stick to M*/M* - a few pins don't like playing faster. |
Concept 3/10
A somewhat inconsistent course with nothing as really defining as a location, North Surface is definitely at its best when the hole
design is simple and effective and the designer's exuberant instincts are restrained. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen often enough,
and there are too many holes over unfeasible elevations, long Par 4s (the course clocks in far too lengthy for what it is), and too little
attention to the features that really make for a memorable course. |
Appearance 4/10
Some of the grass-level planting is very nice, but that's really about the limit of it. The bunkers are often simple extrusions out of flat
ground and the textures are unremarkable. The trees have plenty of cloning and the elevations have been handled very poorly for a
course that it trying to sell its credentials in that way. In the grand scale, it looks OK, but it does little to show progress from previous
courses and may even be a step back. |
Playability 4/10
There's too little here to focus the interest on, bar some extreme and quite silly elevations from time to time. The course feels
worryingly flat (in every sense) and sterile. Unobjectionable for a couple of rounds, but too little thereafter. |
Challenge 8/10
With the hole length stretched back to championship standard lengths, there's a good, stern test here, even if the front half is distinctly
more problematic than the rather lacklustre closing nine. Granted, it's artificial, but the challenges are well-presented, and if you want a
course where Par feels like a worthwhile number, this one's hard to beat. |
Technical 4/10
Too many eccentricities and inconsistencies here, especially since we've seen better work in the past from the same designers. The fact
that the Montgomeries' courses are exceedingly well play-tested is definitely a point in favour, and this - among other courses - could be
comfortably improved by just keeping things simple. |
| Overall |
Fairly unremarkable; an elevated course where the elevations are one of its worst
features. |
23/50 |
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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