TPC Sugarloaf (Stables and Meadows)

[Ian Wells]

Gentlemen,

I have asked Andy to upload the Beta version of TPC Sugarloaf (Stables and Meadows).

TPC Sugarloaf is a private 27 hole golf club, located north east of Atlanta, in Duluth, Georgia. The course was built in 1997 and was the first course designed by Greg Norman.

The three 9-hole courses are called Stables, Meadows and Pines, with the championship course made up of Stables and Meadows which provides a par 72 running to 7322 yards.

I welcome all and any comments.

Over the coming weeks after receiving any comments, I plan to complete two further courses:

1. TPC Sugarloaf (Pines and Stables).
2. TPC Sugarloaf (Select). My selection of 18 holes from the three courses.


Thank you for your time,
Ian

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Acknowledgements:

• Greg Norman for his design.

• Linkster for providing the DEM download of the course and for the green contour details.

• Lez Marwick and/or McCoist for supplying the majority of grass textures used (I am responsible for changing the texture tones)

• Lez Marwick for his invaluable video tutorial.

• Daniel for his trees and plants (the vast majority of trees are newly purchased.)

• Sage for supplying me with pot bunker textures to modify.

• Adelade for his ideas on mapping pot bunker walls which he made in one of his posts on the forum.

• Sketchup Textures, free textures library for 3D CG artists (sketchuptextureclub.com) for providing the textures that I used which didn't come from Lez's package.

References:

Golf Course, Duluth, Georgia | Private Golf Club | TPC Sugarloaf

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Sketchup Textures, free textures library for 3D CG artists

[sagevanni]

Beautiful....!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wonderful work..!!!

Sage......

[pmgolf]

Looks great, Ian!

Pete

[braden1308]

Very nice looking Ian!!!

[Weeler]

I'll just echo the compliments above. Looks like another great course from you, and I'll be downloading the beta and playing a round soon !

Ron

[ChuckH]

Played a quick round. Great looking course. Plays quick and smooth. Thanks for making. Gotta play some more rounds.
Noticed there are no hole handicaps.
Chcuk

[Guitarzan]

Looks great! I remember playing GBC and Tiger Woods 2001 versions of this course and I never saw it for Links until now. Thanks for this!

[AGLZZ]

Awesome Course.Another great Ian course

[Ian Wells]

Gentlemen,
Thank you for your comments.
I hope you enjoy playing the course.
Ian

[Adelade]

Nice, kinda crazy how this is your third wonderful course of such high quality in 2024, and this one is even 27 holes.

I only found one potential problem - there is a lot of non-flat reflective water with the creeks, I did see some minor oddity reflections (because I went looking for them), for example the reflection of the soil edge showing up in weird spots on for example hole 3 by the green, but Im not saying it is necessarily an issue that needs to be fixed, it might look good enough from most common gameplay angles, and personally I kind of like seeing reflective water whenever it is possible to have it. I think some non-reflective water textures look good but others dont, and Im sure opinions on that vary greatly from person to person. There is some risk that the non-flat reflective water causes crashes or other instability in some places as we have seen on other courses, but I tried to move around and see a lot of different angles on the 3rd green to see if I could get the game to crash or something, but I didnt find any such spot. I didnt test the green analyzer.