Holein1
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Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 @ 3:58:23 PM at |
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Five years after TeeOffTowersey’s version, the CGX team designed their own (released again today), quite pretty with a nice landscape, beautiful fairway and green textures, and with plenty of water hazards on the front 9 and a couple of challenging finishing holes. My favorite holes, on the front 9, are the left dogleg par-4 2nd, with its approach over a serpentine creek, the left dogleg par-5 3rd, with a very tough (second or third ?) shot over a big lake (right in front of the green), and the right dogleg par-4 4th hole, with another approach toward the green, over more water. If the par-4 5th hole is straight with water on both sides of the fairway, near the tee on the right and midway on the left, I prefer the much nicer left dogleg par-4 6th, with the fairway hugging a big lake on the left, over which you will need to hit your approach to reach the green. Then, after the pretty par-3 7th hole, with a tee shot over a wide lake, you will face the par-4 8th, with another big lake on the left and a green, slightly to the left (with another creek in front), before finishing with the left dogleg par-4 9th hole, with a big pond, midway across the fairway, and a small lake, right in front of the green, on the right. The back 9 starts with the picturesque right dogleg par-4 10th hole, one of my favorites, with an elongated lake splitting the fairway diagonally and a second shot over it toward the green, and continues with the par-3 12th, with a big pond, right in front of the green. Later on, after the par-5 15th hole, and its long second shot over a small stream across the fairway, you will head to the dogleg par-4 16th, slightly uphill all the way with a green, sharply to the left, before moving on to the tough right dogleg par-5 17th hole, sharply to the right, with another shot over a meandering creek, two-thirds of the way. You will finish with the gorgeous left dogleg par-4 18th hole where, if you can avoid “beheading” (!) a few fans facing the tee box and land your shot to the right of the big serpentine lake, you will have a golden opportunity to score one last birdie if you can get your approach over the lake, close to the flag. Nicely done and pretty to look at, this CGX Brabazon @ The Belfry course is another nice course to keep, thanks to the CGX team !
P.S. I also played again TeeOffTowersey's 2008 version to compare it to this one and, even though it looks nice too, there are more bare surroundings beyond the holes and a few grainy patches, here and there between the layout and the horizon, which is why I will keep the CGX version, this time...
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