| Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 1981 |
Release Date |
CRZ Filesize |
Par |
Course Length |
| 2011-01-10 |
22,751,557 bytes |
54 |
2819 yards |
| Type |
Style |
CRZ Filename |
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IMAGINARY Par 3 Course |
MOUNTAIN |
sanbernardinomtngc.crz |
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| COURSE NOTES |
| This is a par 3 snow course. |
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CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson (ousgg) |
Description
Imaginary, short course |
Location
Up a mountain, in the snow! Canada, maybe? |
Conditions
Playable on F*/F* (recommended if you want to pretend the greens are icy
hard) |
Concept 8/10
Carp if you will, but I've always been a firm admirer of pushing the envelope with the APCD, and here's another proof that a slightly silly
concept doesn't have to be unplayable. The whole course is quite enchanting in its snowiness, and the use of textures has been
manipulated perfectly to achieve a little winter wonderland of golf - the 13th notably being impressive for its 'island' green in a frozen lake.
The golf itself is pretty modest, but as an overall environment, it's hard to beat. |
Appearance 8/10
Wonderful surface work makes the snow and frozen greens look very convincing, and it's worth noting that the texture work spreads to the
excellent rock formations as well. It's good to see the concept has spread to the snow-dusted pine trees and a suitably frosty panorama.
Only the occasional low-res tree in close up, and an inevitable surrealist feel, lets the whole thing down. |
Playability 6/10
The snow packed around the greens lets you muck around a little with bank shots, and there's as reasonable a variety of Par 3s as
anyone could expect from a short course - including a signature hole or two. Unfortunately, as is often the way with these courses, the
whole thing becomes just a little too regulation after a while: the greens actually reasonable to hit, and even fast settings won't deter
the ball from settling predictably on the icy baize. |
Challenge 8/10
Finding the snow is a definite problem: getting up and down out of that lot is no guarantee, as you'd reasonably expect. But this should
be a relatively rare occurrence, even despite the tiny (and in one case, minuscule) landing areas. Finding the surface will generally
land you a fair putt at birdie, and the net result is likely to be a stroke or two under par. |
Technical 7/10
With general course mechanics almost impossible to rate on any given scale, I found my attention turning inevitably to the snow, and
whether it reacted and rolled like a real twelve-inch covering of the cold stuff. To some extent - having the snow play like heavy rough
- it did, but I wonder if there's more scope to have it play even tougher. The critic in me would also wonder why the designer failed to
play really heavily on the winter theme, and at least throw in a snowman or something. For an admittedly hasty knock-up of a course,
mind you, there's some very solid work here. |
| Overall |
Wintry Par-3 fun. Not so much as a warm-up course as a cool down… |
37/50 |
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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