| Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 2090 |
Release Date |
CRZ Filesize |
Par |
Course Length |
| 2012-08-28 |
63,619,072 bytes |
70 |
7094 yards |
| Type |
Style |
CRZ Filename |
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REAL |
LINKS |
RLSA2012Beta.crz |
| Course ID |
Course Key |
| 50fc22478b374ea1a4964da04300dbdc |
65e900182e13b3926bd79f19930b4fdd |
| COURSE NOTES |
| A beta 2012 Open Championship version of Royal Lytham & St. Annes. Please see the read me for additional credits, notes and additions. |
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CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson (ousgg) |
Description
Real, links course |
Location
Liverpool |
Conditions
In truth, I wouldn't want to tackle this any faster than S*/S* |
Concept 9/10
One of the classic Open venues, Lytham certainly makes the most of its unappealing setting, squeezed into a small space between
Liverpool's city and a railway line, with narrow fairways, cavernous bunkering, and rough that very much illustrates what links golf
should be about. The unusual layout, finishing with six straight Par 4s, is a clue to the age and the dictate imposed on the course by
the lumpy links-land, with its drainage channels and hillocks still intact between the tournament objects. This fourth incarnation of Links
adaptation very much nails the right location where previous editions missed out. |
Appearance 6/10
Some nice texture upgrades are a definite plus, although they're not always fully blended, and there are quite a few oddities. The
excess of tournament objects wasn't really necessary, and some of the newly-installed hazards haven't been well-extruded. It's very
much worth catching, though, for the way the aura of this very British (and not always in a good way!) has been captured. |
Playability 8/10
All the classic courses play well, and Royal Lytham is no exception. The grandstands are off-putting, but much of the coarse and
original soundscript remains - and actually it doesn't sound all that bad. It's a toss-up whether players will feel they're being impeded
by the greens, which are part of the list of things that required alteration. |
Challenge 5/10
Lytham is tough work - the fairways start off tight, and end up ultra-tight with the fun, showboating 18th hole. The greens in real life are
tricky, but not as bad as those on the APCD version, where too many pins lie mid-slope. But, on the flip side, at least the difficulty of
the rough was bang on the mark, and it's easy to see why the pros are made to look like hackers by this little beauty. |
Technical 6/10
Without intending detriment to the original in any way, there are too many problems here that could have been tightened up in remake,
most notably the greens, poorly-meshed bunkers, and the lack of more than a few pins per hole. |
| Overall |
A great, and difficult, golf course pulls through some middling design on its wide
coat-tails. |
34/50 |
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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