Augusta National 2023

[chad]

Great, I'll take a look and report back with my findings.

[Adelade]

Keep in mind that the number of the pin viewed within Links is different to the number of the same pin viewed within APCD! In Links they are 0-17 and in APCD they are 1-18.

[chad]

Keep in mind that the number of the pin viewed within Links is different to the number of the same pin viewed within APCD! In Links they are 0-17 and in APCD they are 1-18.

Good point, thanks!

[linkster]

I'll have to confess, I didn't realize that The Masters released their pin position sheets. A google search quickly informed me that I was wrong. Below is the pin positions for hole 18 from 2019 to 2022 (could only find round 1 and round 4 for 2020).

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It is tricky to get the yard grid to align the way they do it for each hole but once I can get these into QGIS, I can get the pin positions into APCD. Looks like I will be doing some research in the week ahead.

[ponkey]

Hi Linkster

your new Augusta is fantastic. The elevations look sooooo real, and the planting is excellent. All courses should be done this way.
If you had time to put together a fairly detailed tutorial on how it is done, that would help us other designers greatly.
Great work !!
Peter

[Stephen27]

Hi Linkster.
Have enjoyed playing this new version, but, I
believe I've found a slight bug.
All of the water hazards seem to play as if landing in the rough without penalty and needing a drop ball.

[pmgolf]

That can happen when playing it in Practice Mode if you don't have the "Enforce Normal Drop Rules" box checked.

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Pete

[Stephen27]

That can happen when playing it in Practice Mode if you don't have the "Enforce Normal Drop Rules" box checked.

Drop Rules Chkbox.jpg

Pete

Thanks Pete. Spotted my elementary mistake. Checked this out and you're right.
Played the course as normally intended and problem disappears. Thanks for that and apologies to linkscorner for my faux pas.

[TampaEd]

MrT wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:32 pm
It makes no difference to me as I am not on APCD and I am not going to be, but is locking the course the best option?
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Normally I am all for unlocked courses and sharing but this one is more sensitive than most. I have thought about this all winter and decided that locking is the right way to go. I am even concerned of just naming this course Augusta National. Versions of Augusta in PGA 2k23 are named something else. I named the course and file name to the same order as previous editions to keep confusion down.

Even if the course was unlocked, there is little that someone could do to the file until the APCD corrupted the 2D objects. Any edits to the course would need my full APCD directory to avoid file corruption.
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You are well within your rights to lock your creation. However, as a rule, I NEVER play a locked course.

[Kunkleman]

MrT wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:32 pm
It makes no difference to me as I am not on APCD and I am not going to be, but is locking the course the best option?
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Normally I am all for unlocked courses and sharing but this one is more sensitive than most. I have thought about this all winter and decided that locking is the right way to go. I am even concerned of just naming this course Augusta National. Versions of Augusta in PGA 2k23 are named something else. I named the course and file name to the same order as previous editions to keep confusion down.

Even if the course was unlocked, there is little that someone could do to the file until the APCD corrupted the 2D objects. Any edits to the course would need my full APCD directory to avoid file corruption.
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
You are well within your rights to lock your creation. However, as a rule, I NEVER play a locked course.

And you are entitled to your opinion, but you are missing some of the best courses ever created.