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No, it is NOT a contest or anything, Im just curious to hear other stories of course library exploration.

I got to thinking - there probably isnt even a single person who has played ALL courses available for Links 2003, right? Or maybe some of you have? Even anywhere close to it? Even half? I was primarily thinking of an actual full round on each course, but I guess regardless of playing method too.

I bet there were some people back when Links was more popular who had played all of them, but I would be surprised if anyone has kept that up until this day - though who knows.

Personally, I think I've played a full round on about 300 courses, which I think of as a whole lot, but ultimately is downright laughable when you compare to how many there actually are.... like... I dont even know, 2500 or so? I guess it depends a bit on how you count. I would like to think that I have played most of those that are likely to appeal best to my personal taste, since I mostly favour real courses, and have gone through ousgg's reviews, the old community rating system, other lists, old and new forum posts and whatnot, but I know there still must be some courses out there that I'd love if only I had the time and energy to seek them out. I used to work through my long to-play list now and then, here and there, but nowadays I struggle to just keep up with playing all the new releases (in addition to replaying all my favourite courses on a regular-enough basis, which is also going rather slowly). I suspect a lot of you check out courses without playing a full round, I do that on occasion too, but I dont really like it, I much prefer giving courses a full round before evaluating how I feel about them - which is the main reason I struggle to work through my long list of courses to try out...

I've played 260 courses, which are on my hard drive in 2 directories,
some courses have disappeared or are not available any more.
There are 1747 courses available on Links Corner as of today 11-24-24, some good, some not so good.
Thanks to ALL the designers.

I don't use the " Course" directory. I group my courses alphabetically (A-C, D-F and so on). My directories show a total of 587 files. This probably includes different revisions of same courses, betas, maybe some shadow files. This doesn't include courses that I played once and decided I didn't like them. Those are in a separate directory named "Don't Like" (very creative ). I found out a while ago that if I deleted a course that I didn't like and it came up again, I would waste time downloading it again.

It was always my goal to play all of the available courses. It was partly why I created my course spreadsheet. As of now, I'm only updated with courses released to the middle of October but not counting older versions of courses, I've played less than 25% of the released courses. Real life (aka work!) got in the way back then and now that I've retired, I'm still finding it difficult to get the interest to pursue my goal. Some of that might be due to my aging computer and failed video card, so I don't know if I'll ever get back to playing more courses.

Links 2003:


(I had the same goal with PG, and have fallen short on that one too at 110/493 or 22%!)

Armand

Being the packrat that I am, I have roughly 5,000 recorded rounds of mine and other players on other Links web sites - time period of 2010 to now, that I've managed to save. Some of them are the "Pro Player" recorded rounds that we used to play against on "KISS Tour's" CPU Tour, where we used to compete against the recorded rounds. Most of the rounds have enough identification to be able to know the tournament, time period, and round conditions of the round. I'll continue to save them until Links' final days.

Pete

Well have around 1000 on my PC , and played most of them so over 500

I have been playing Links since Links86. Sometime back I started an Excel spreadsheet containing every course I downloaded and played. It now contains 700 courses from A Wacky World of Golf to Zoe Marsh Golf Links. I have played all of them and some like Augusta many times. About 5 years ago I decided to play them all again as I have more time now. I started playing those courses designed by the top designers back years ago (Mike and Andrew Jones, Art Patscheck, Eddie Schmidt, Robert Miller, Chuck Clark and others). Now I am just going down the list and playing ones that I downloaded and played once or twice when they were released. There have been a lot of great courses designed by a lot of guys and I thank them all for providing me with a lot of fun. I would like to have played all the real old courses but they no longer work. I'm glad some of the MS courses have been redesigned by the guys. I would like to see Latrobe CC done since it was the first Links course I ever played. I think it had an interesting first hole but that is all I remember about it.

There is a converter that converts the old Access courses to the current format.


Details are on Links Country Club https://www.linkscountryclub.com/links-course-converter

If you go here, you can purchase ALL 47 of the Links2K3 courses for $14.99.

https://www.linkscountryclub.com/courses