It's been an awfully long time since I've played or designed courses for Links 2003! After leaving Links, I played a lot of Perfect Golf with my brother and also The Golf Club (original release) as well. I did enjoy designing on the latter and produced about twenty courses, but I only created one course for Perfect Golf as I didn't really enjoy working with its designer program because I had issues with it that prevented me from using all its features, which was frustrating. Since my brother MerkyMik's death though on July 24th 2018 I haven't played any golf games as the thought of doing so without my brother has been holding me back. For anyone who doesn't know, I've suffered from mental health issues for most of my life, including depression, anxiety and a host of phobias and I relied on my brother a lot, especially over the last decade. Losing him has been pretty devastating to me. It was the 2nd anniversary of his death on Friday and that day I ended up watching his Youtube channel for old time's sake. One video in particular was footage of us playing my beta of Anakena Beach together on Links 2003. At first I thought it might depress me too much if I watched it, but it actually had the opposite effect and now I'm really keen to try and get Links and APCD running again on my current PC, although I'm not sure how problematic that will be. I'm also suffering from memory problems these days, so even if I can get it all working by myself, I'm not sure how capable I'll be of playing, let alone course designing.
At least someone has posted an excellent video tutorial series here for the APCD that should help!!!
Seriously, I'm not sure if I'll be able to get back into designing again, but I still might be able to help out by producing textures, hole previews, panos, custom objects, skies, or help someone struggling with course planting because those were the things that I think I did pretty well and should still be capable of. Updating old courses again might also be a possibility and another thing I'd quite like to do is make a few Links 2003 videos for Youtube of the courses I made, because the only one I've done so far for Links was of my Mowsbury Golf Club design. I know for sure I won't remember their layouts though, even though I played through them all countless times during their construction!
Anyway, the first job is to try and get Links 2003 installed and running again so hopefully I'll attempt that, with all its accompanying stress, in the next few days..... I need to just take it slowly, one step at a time, and see how it goes!!
Like many others, I've consulted your video's many many times. Thank you VERY much for the time and effort that you put into that project. It is truly invaluable to us here at Links Corner. So glad you came back. 
