Crooked Stick Final

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Ian Wells
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Crooked Stick Final

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The final version of Crooked Stick is now available. Thank you Andy. :tiphat:

Crooked Stick is a private golf club and was designed by Alice and Pete Dye, in 1964. The course plays to 7516 yards from the back tees and has a par of 72.

The APCD rendition only incorporates the playing area and it's immediate panorama. I have fully utilised my draughtsman's license regarding the amount of detail that is included in all the structures.

Acknowledgements:

Alice and Pete Dye for designing the course.
Linkster for the Lidar download.
Lez Marwick / for uploading the majority of grass textures used. I believe that some of the textures I used were made by McCoist and included in Lez's download. (I am responsible for changing the texture tones).
Lez Marwick for the invaluable video tutorial.
Weeler and ChuckH for there help in the pre-Beta testing.
Sage for the custom flag.
All members of the Links Corner Forum for there help both directly and indirectly via posts to the forums.
Sketchup Textures, free textures library for 3D CG artists (https://www.sketchuptextureclub.com/) for providing the textures that I used which did not come from Lez's package.

References:

The main sources of information were:

Crooked Stick website (https://www.crookedstick.org/the-stick)

Google Earth Pro (39°56'54.26"N, 86°11'27.50"W)

Th following sources were also used:

Crooked Stick Golf Club Annual Weather Averages - GOLF, United States of America (https://www.worldweatheronline.com/golf ... es/us.aspx)

Wind & weather statistics Indianapolis Executive Airport - (https://www.windfinder.com/windstatisti ... ve_airport)

Crooked Stick Golf Club (Carmel, Indiana) | GolfCourseGurus (https://golfcoursegurus.com/reviews/cro ... golf-club/)

Crooked Stick (http://www.thegolfbucketlist.com/crooked-stick.html)

Crooked Stick Golf Club – Tiger Golf Traveler (https://tigergolftraveler.com/2016/01/1 ... golf-club/)

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Re: Crooked Stick Final

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Thank you, Mr. Wells. New courses are always much appreciated.
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Thank you, Mr Fooooore!
I hope you enjoy playing the course.
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So, does the real club house actually have a pot of flowers like that in that part of the building?
I'm exploring the design details in practice mode and just wondered about that.

Thank you for making this course, it is very nice and challenging.
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That's quite a party going on in the outdoor area.
Like the attention to detail. I wonder how many folks who download this course go looking around in some of these areas?
I generally do not, but since you mentioned it...
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Migolfer,
I don’t have the imagination.

https://tigergolftraveler.com/2016/01/1 ... golf-club/

Third photo.

Pleased that you like it.

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The covered bridges are cool, you have those all over the place (as you know).
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Plus, the culvert is neat too.
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Thx again, this is all very entertaining.
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i love all the little details you put in on this course Ian.
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bear2016
I'm glad that you appreciate the details. It makes it worthwhile.
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I like that web page too. About 35 of those photos will become wallpaper once I do a bit of cropping and get the right aspect ratio :thumbup:
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