a very nice course the best and worth the download and a joy to play, hope you do more in thr future to name a few Loch Lomond, The Belfry, Wentworth, Glrneagles. keep it up.

Jpr

No problem, Brian. But putting up our criticism for all to see allows other budding designers to learn from it also. If they take it the right way, that is. If, as a designer, you get comments from a fellow designer you should always take that as a compliment, regardless of the content of the comments. He (or she of course) has taken the trouble to download and look at the course from a designer's perspective, which is different from a player's. Lots of courses that I see from beginning designers show the same elementary mistakes. It doesn't harm to opint those out, I think. In the end everybody will profit from it, the players as well because they get better looking courses.

Brian, you don't get it. These comments aren't nitpicking. If you want to do a real course you should put in the effort to find out what it actually looks like and then try and recreate that as closely as possible within the limitations of the CA, which are plentiful enough. It is easy enough to copy the lay out of a course from a couple of overheads, but to get anywhere close to what the real elevation, vegetation and structures actually look like, you have to study it hole by hole. I haven't played this course, nor am I familiar with the real course, but if Ronbrug, who's a very accomplished and conscientious real course designer, makes comments like he did here, if I were the designer I'd take the trouble to listen what he has to say. Like I'm sure the other Ron has :)

I have to agree with Ronbrug. Just got done playing this on the front nine. I did see a little bit of resemblence to the actual course, but was well off the course. For example the hill behind the green on 6(Which is a replica of the 12th at Muirfield Village) is not in play in this rendition. The bunker behind the green on the real course is set into the hillside which is actually cut away where the green is built on. During the Memorial Tournament, the gallery actually uses the hillside as a natural grandstand. The tees were also out of position here. The placement of the tees are actually set to have the tee shots carry both the water and the front bunker. On this course here, they are way off to the left side which does not even bring the bunker in play.

Technically most of the course was done well. However there is not any terrain work that was done outside of the playable areas of the holes. Basically the plot is dead flat. The planting looked to be carried out in a haphazard style, including many trees planted on cart paths. I did not encounter any performance issues, or any defects in playing the front nine. I did not continue after plyaing the front nine. There was just not enough interest in the course for me to complete the round.

I too would agree that a little bit more time spent researching and working on the courses would result in a much more polished look and far mar apeal. I felt as if I was playing on a CA wizard created course. I presonally would opt for quality over quantity(32 courses)

On a side note. The location of this course is just northeast of Stone Mountain, so there are mountains there. Not the Apls by any sense but mountainous terrain nonetheless.

Ronburg, this is a real course in Atlanta,Ga. no mountains that I know of there. logically it follows that the designer has to work with the pano that is available in that area. This is a beautifully designed replication of some of Jack Nicklaus's more famous holes set in the Georgia countryside. well done Ron. I,m a big fan of your designs and have been for some time. Ronburg,maybe think before you criticize next time.