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The Impossible by Brian Vogt
Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 1233 |
Release Date |
CRZ Filesize |
Par |
Course Length |
2003-02-24 |
4,423,913 bytes |
72 |
9483 yards |
Type |
Style |
CRZ Filename |
FICTIONAL |
PARKLAND |
The Impossible.crz |
Course ID |
Course Key |
2a9f2880476d11d7b307444553540001 |
da9d52479012fc2b9a926a0548284360 |
LINKS CORNER REVIEW |
Reviewed by Robert Rundel
March 2003
The Impossible is undoubtedly the worst travesty of a golf course I have seen in all my years of playing Links. The name apparently refers to its length, an enormous 9483 yards, although it could just as well describe your chances of getting any pleasure whatsoever from playing it.
The worst aspect of this course for me is its unrelenting flatness. Screenshot 1 shows what is unfortunately a very typical scene on this course. This is a view of the fairway on the 7th hole, a modest par 4 of 568 yards to a small flat island green. The landscape looks as though a team of surveyors had leveled it. Aside from one very artificial hill, which serves as the tee area for the 3rd hole (shown in the left background of screenshot 1), and some (but not all) of the greens, the entire course is perfectly level.
This lack of elevation change even applies to holes where water makes an appearance. Screenshot 2 shows the green at the 1st hole, a challenging par 5 of 897 yards. This green is completely surrounded by a moat of water. The water is at exactly the same level as the surrounding rough, with no bank or transition whatsoever. And I can't resist showing the 13th green (screenshot 3), where the grid shows that the water flows uphill to match the contour of the green.
The flatness even applies to bunkers, although there are very few of them on this course. Screenshot 4 shows a bunker in the middle of the 4th fairway. It too is at exactly the same level as the surrounding grass, and looks as though it was spray-painted onto the fairway.
Another extraordinary piece of unusual flat design is the 12th hole, an 831-yard par 5. The fairway is paralleled by a large strip of concrete, like an airport runway, shown in screenshot 5. An excellent strategy on this very long hole is to drive your ball onto the concrete—you will get a very good roll, and a drive approaching 400 yards.
The panorama used here looks to me like California hills, a complete mismatch for a flat grassland course. Identical trees show up over and over again on every hole, as shown in nearly all the screenshots. The course even plays through a graveyard at one point. There are identical ticky-tacky box houses on the 18th hole, sitting isolated in the rough.
There is a readme file of four lines. There is no cameo, no splash screen, no hole previews, no hole handicaps, no cart paths, no hole signs, no gallery. There are some custom objects, but of a dubious nature, such as the British Golf Museum which appears behind the 2nd green.
Summary :
Details: Imaginary parkland 18-hole course, par 72, 9483 yards, 4 par 3s, 10 par 4s, 4 par 5s, 5 tees per hole. Minimal readme file, no cameo or splash screen, no hole handicaps, no hole previews, no hole signs, no cart path, a few custom objects, no gallery or tournament objects. |
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