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7 Lakes Golf Course by Wayne Kerns
Links Corner Course Database ID Number - 977 |
Release Date |
CRZ Filesize |
Par |
Course Length |
2002-07-20 |
42,977,212 bytes |
72 |
7032 yards |
Type |
Style |
CRZ Filename |
FICTIONAL |
MOUNTAIN |
7 Lakes.crz |
Course ID |
Course Key |
7566a2609bfd11d68fdc00c0f0963a5a |
fadcb107bab57edafdb7b94bb85e6661 |
LINKS CORNER REVIEW |
Reviewed by
Joe Turner `Loner'
September 2002
He had a nice clean look to his tee boxes; a mow pattern to the fairway, first cut, his rough was called 'tall grass' and was deep both in color and thickness. The green had a fringe and a checkerboard pattern to it. All in all course had a deep dense coloring that was attractive. He had a nice but small selection of trees buried deep in wildgrass, shrubs and small bushes that made for a nice combination. The lack of great numbers of trees and objects led me to wonder why the download was so large for a course that had fairly clear tee areas also. The only reason that I as a non-designer could come up with would be the vast grass areas on this course. His bunker work was very nice and the sand had good coloring for the type of course it was. I believe he had 3 courses before this and they seem to look better as he learns the APCD. This leads me to wonder how well he will do with the new APCD 1.5.
His elevations, caddie and in between club distances were very well done which all led to an interesting game. There were some interesting hole shapes but he made the fairways narrow on these, he sort of defeated the idea of 'the challenge' by not substituting hazards for narrow fairways. He did have good placement with the few fairway bunkers and many of the greens seem to be well guarded. The greens were mostly flat with some breaks to them and a few were sloped but they were all fair and scoring birdies or the occasional eagle was not impossible. The greens were small and with the bunker placement made a few of them fun. Hole # 12 had a good chance at being an excellent risk/reward hole but fell short. On hole # 14, 315y I cut across and hit the green just 22ft short of the cup.
As with his other courses Wayne seem to fall short combining imaginative holes, challenging play and eye candy. He is better that many of the designers out there but beta testing and more exciting play would be the answer to the problem with this as well as his other courses. As I said I can see the marked improvement in his work and I for one hope that he will continue to build better courses. With beta testing help and the patience to spend time tweaking his courses he could put out more enjoyable play. Yes I would say download this course but it will be a one-play course, if you feel that it isn't too large of a download the playability is there.
Reviewer Note:
I am a player not a designer and therefore rate a course as a player for other players.
Summary :
Included: readme, cameo, splash, custom flag, ball washers, hole previews and a recorded round.
Not Included: hole signs or numbers and custom tees.
Statistical Information: par 72, 7032y, 5 sets of tees, 5-3 pars, 8-4 pars, 5-5 pars. |
CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson (ousgg) |
Description Fictional, lakeside course |
Location - |
Conditions - |
Concept 5/10 A lot of good ideas have clearly gone into 7 Lakes. It's a convincing
lowland environment using a variety (perhaps a few too many, it might be
said) of APCD techniques, and incorporating well-designed holes that
follow the landscape nicely rather than trying to work against it. The
eponymous lakes are brought into play subtly rather than forcefully. It's a
crying shame, then, that despite all this the course suffers from a lack of
attention to presentation, with some poor mesh errors dogging the play
and the hole previews inexplicably vanishing halfway through. |
Appearance 5/10 It's possible to find all the extremes here. Certain areas of the course have received much attention - lovely planting with minimal
cloning and an eye for unusual object placement that makes the course all the more memorable. But there are also some horrible
extrusions and mesh problems - some very crude indeed - and a few scaling errors that take your eyes off the prize. |
Playability 6/10 A featureless and rather dull first half opens out into a second half with - if not as much challenge - certainly a great deal more
enjoyment. Fairway-shaping and good green complexes are key here, and only a few slightly silly conceits get in the way of a very
adequate layout. |
Challenge 4/10 For the age of this course, the greens have largely been kept to a puttable standard, and it's the prevalent rough that provides much of
the fairway challenge, rather than over-enthusiastic hazarding. Sadly, the second half breaks down on what seemed so convincing at
the start, and it's rather too easy to pick up strokes on holes of rapidly-shortening average length.4 |
Technical 4/10 You'll be a patient golfer to overlook some of the more unsightly problems here at 7 Lakes. There has clearly been a lack of testing; a
crying shame in retrospect for a course with plenty to offer. The speckly textures urgently need an overhaul, and this is one of those
many courses where we might all benefit if the designer took a second look some eight years on. |
Overall |
Some nice golf disguised amid layers of technical competence and inadequate
testing. |
24/50 |
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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