Langolier Golf Club 2005 - Designed by Fred Briggson, Updated for Links 2003 by Chris Gormley


Langolier was originally released as a 2001 course and it was one of the top courses of its time.  During December in 2004 I contacted Fred Briggson about updating his fabulous design using as many of the advanced 2003 techniques as I could master as I have never used the APCD before and this would be my first time venturing into the world of the APCD.  He gave me his blessing with the condition that he be credited as the original designer and that I not change any of the hole layouts.  Which was fine with me as that was not my orignal intent when starting this project.

I did take the liberty of elevating a few tee boxes to better enhance the view from the tee but other than that I have left all of Fred's original design intact.  

After spending almost 6 months working on Langolier 2005 I think I have taken this course as far as I can with the skills that I have developed. As with every designer there are areas in which I will never be happy but for the most part I am very happy with how the course has turned out.

There are many people who helped me along the way during the update.  A big thanks to Mike Jones, Wayne Hewitt, John Pineda for allowing me to pick their brains with my dumb newbie questions about the APCD.  Also a big thanks to Bruce Darby for being my "searcher of the repeated trees man".  He went through the course and found as many of those dreaded repeated trees as was possible.  Thanks to Tatsuya Morita for the wonderful hole previews.

The biggest thanks though goes to Bob Hankla who helped me through just about everything possible with the APCD....I am sure his wife got tired of hearing ICQ go off the last couple of months.  Without Bob's guidance this project could not have been accomplished.

And also a final thanks to Fred Briggson for allowing me to take his course and give it an updated look.

I hope you enjoy Langolier Golf Club 2005.

Chris Gormley
KISS Tours
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ChrisGormley@kisstours.com



