| Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 2113 |
Release Date |
CRZ Filesize |
Par |
Course Length |
| 2012-12-16 |
57,487,360 bytes |
71 |
7018 yards |
| Type |
Style |
CRZ Filename |
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FICTIONAL |
WOODLAND |
Logan's Mill GC.crz |
| Course ID |
Course Key |
| 1cf71d32faf74b6eae7f4562fef1e76b |
76d6172b72f93ca983b30bd1ff9fc35e |
| COURSE NOTES |
Many thanks to all the beta testers at Links Corner, who made some great suggestions about the course...and many were incorporated in this final CRZ.
Also, thanks to Jerry Garlisch who handicaped the course for me.
Hope you will enjoy this course!
Zea Miller |
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CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson (ousgg) |
Description
Fictional, forest course |
Location
Michigan, at a guess, given the designer’s form. |
Conditions
S*/S* seems to be the safe choice. |
Concept 4/10
Logan's Mill does much to be sensible, straight-laced and believable, while at the same time making it annoyingly anonymous and
difficult to place. I really wanted to get more feel for the course and the location than I did, but with the all-enclosing tree surround and
the lack of landmarks, it's rather difficult to engage with it. Best of it is the set of Par 4s leading up to the final stretch in defiance of
golfing tradition, which succeed in mixing up the game rather nicely. |
Appearance 5/10
The pale texture set is cute, but there are plenty of tiling problems and the choice of path texture is frankly ludicrous. The planting is
suitably dense to as to shield the course, but a mixture of tree resolutions and sizes doesn't help the sense of scale from some angles.
I can't say I was keen on the bunkers, with their dark and unfitting lip texture. The elevations, though, are sensitively handled, and
worthy of credit. |
Playability 3/10
I'm afraid I found it hard to enjoy Logan's Mill. The lack of hole previews did nothing to help the artificial 'lost' feeling of the course, and
the endless string of blind tee shots that resulted went from challenging to frustrating very quickly. Approach shots were either trivial or
impossible with no in-between ground, and putts were too often impracticable. Leaving well alone, regrettably, is the best way to face
this. |
Challenge 7/10
The big obstacle is poor greening and pin positioning, and this dwarves any intriguing nascent challenge from the bunkers or plateaus.
With a proper standard of short stuff, this could be a brilliantly-balanced test, but the misjudgement of such an important factor holds
back the course. |
Technical 6/10
Lots of admirable progression here, even given that Zea's previous course was many years previous, and the course design and restraint
should be admired in its simplicity. Unfortunately, the greening pretty much kills the round, with some resolution problems being just the
icing on that cake. |
| Overall |
A course disappointing lacking in memorable holes or a location, and therefore
carrying the uneasy feeling that it will lose out. |
25/50 |
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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