| Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 1857 |
Release Date |
CRZ Filesize |
Par |
Course Length |
| 2008-12-22 |
31,653,888 bytes |
72 |
7568 yards |
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Style |
CRZ Filename |
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FICTIONAL |
WOODLAND |
Fox Cove Forest Golf Club_locked.crz |
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CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson (ousgg) |
Description
Fictional, parkland course |
Location
TBC |
Conditions
TBC |
Concept 5/10
Paul Dalglish has eased quietly into the reputation of producing competent, enjoyable, but unremarkable courses for Links, and Fox Cove pretty much fulfils that brief. It's a sterile but coherent environment featuring a country-club set of holes on a largely flat plot. In fact, for competitive golf it makes a decent host, but it's hardly memorable or striking enough to pay repeat visits to on your own. |
Appearance 5/10
A tasteful texture and planting set and a suitably subdued panorama are low-key winners, but the bunker work is rudimentary, and the blending work is wildly inconsistent. There's not much at all in the way of exciting, dynamic views, and this is the real disappointment. It almost feels like the designer is covering up. |
Playability 6/10
For some reason, this possesses a fair amount of stimulation on the first round. Perhaps because many holes are long without being arduous, there's a high price placed on your accuracy with both tee shot and approach shot. There's not much by way of repeat value, but Fox Cove does have the happy knack of at least providing a one-off form of entertainment. Some good sound planting would have improved the experience so much more. |
Challenge 5/10
Unexpectedly tough, this is a lengthy course with deeply punishing thickets of rough which are guaranteed to cost at least one stroke. Throwing in the odd 'easy' hole does little to improve the balance, and it almost feels prescriptive when the designer is throwing the player a bone as an incentive to keep playing. Regardless of whether you take the bait or not, the net result will most likely be a round in the high seventies. |
Technical 4/10
It's all about the refinements. Although there's good planting and underplanting, it's nearly all from stock, and there's very little elsewhere helping to make the course memorable. The texture blending is inconsistent, messy at points (if the desired effect was for scattered sand around the paths, then it hasn't really come off), and too little has been done with the elevations to convince me that the designer really had his heart in it. |
| Overall |
A singularly average course, with an unsingularly average rating. Worth a round or two with a friend, but might be left out to dry after that. |
26/50 |
Please remember that Clipnote reviews are the opinion of one person and do not constitute an 'Official' Links Corner review of the course. |
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