Flood Lands GC - Designed by Chuck Clark
Reviewed by Joe Turner `Loner' April 2003
His zipped file contains an extensive hole by hole read-me, a jpg of the splash, a recorded round and the crz. Here are parts of his interesting read-me.
Hi and welcome to Flood Lands Golf Club, a Links 2003 golf course. This course was designed and built in less than a month and is intended to be a bonus course for purchasers of Rocky Nuts GC. I wanted to thank the people who have been so nice to me and given me so much positive feedback. This course is for you!
This course is a small download again, because I have not done any seam blending or custom planting. I firmly believe that nice courses can be done without making them 80 MB. Seam blending is really nice and I am amazed at the wonderful visual effects that some of the designers can do with it, but it sure takes a long time to get right. There are still some people who download courses by dial-up and I also did this course with them in mind!
Flood Lands is an interesting and (I think) beautiful fictional golf course. It is called Flood Lands because it is relatively flat and has a winding creek running throughout the course. Water comes into play on about 14 or 15 holes. There are a number of risk-reward type holes where the golfer is asked to make a decision off the tee. It is a very strategic golf course, if you take the time to learn all of its subtleties.
Chuck is an award winning designer who has built highly rated imaginary courses (Crocodile Falls, Box canyon), real courses (Torrey Pines), fictional courses (Bunker Hill, Players 18) and has now designed a fictional course with all the trimmings at only an 11.5mb download, and it’s great! It has beautifully made tee boxes, a patterned fairway with a light rough serving as a first cut and a very faintly patterned green with a generous fringe. Lets cut to the fairway, it leads into the light rough, then a rough which blend into a earth colored field that is the main part of the course which is heavily dotted with brush and tall trees. The trees are a pleasure, he assigned top views to them and we are loaded with the shadows on this course that we missed for ever so long. The water hazards and the meandering stream have tall grass, many flowers and rocks strewn along the banks to add that wild nature look. The bunkers not only are impeccably made but many in number. The fairways are nicely sized depending on the original shape of the hole and also are well guarded by very well placed bunkers. The greens which are for the most part medium to small are also very well guarded and usually with a small “throat”. The ponds and the streams are always making their presents known; watch out for them, they are very well placed in front of some of the greens.
The minor elevation changes make the game interesting because of the well-placed hazards, and as usual the caddie is perfect. The “dangers” of the greens are both in the size and the shapes. Hole # 13, par 5, 542y is a terrific example of a double risk/reward hole and gives great satisfaction to the player when he makes it. It is, if you are particularly brave, a possible eagle hole but you should get a birdie or your either too cautious or as bad a golfer as me. Hole # 17, par 4, 294y, yes you can make the green and if you are a fairly good putter you can eagle this hole also.
Chuck in your read-me and you said that this course took a month to build, what do you have for us next month. This course is pure unadulterated pleasure. I played it twice before it was given to me for this review and will it leave my hard drive. If you want some fun, play against his recorded round, more designers are including them but how I wish they all would. What else can I say about this course, it challenging and beautifully rustic. Download it and keep it, it is definitely a keeper.
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Filesize 11MB
Reviewer Note
I am a player not a designer and therefore rate a course as a player for other players.
Summary :
Included: read-me, cameo, splash, hole previews, recorded round, ball washer, cart path and clubhouse.
Not Included: custom tees, custom flags, hole signs or numbers.
Statistical Information: par 72, 7122y, an “F” type woodland course, 5 sets of tee markers, 4-3 pars, 10-4 pars, 4-5 pars, played bck/nw/m/m/e, an 11.5mb download with a 4.19mb shadow file. |
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