Viper wrote:I used the screenshots in the download section to help with others. Thanks for maintaining this as well Brian, it really helps.
All credit to Dar for taking the screenshots and maintaining the spreadsheet. I just converted it all to webpages.
Viper wrote:I'm interested in any courses Brian has released but have no idea what name they are under?
My courses are:
Crystal Lake CC
Homestead CC
Wisconsin River GC
Tri-City GC v1 and v2 (not to be confused with DanO’s Tri-City CC)
Bull’s Eye CC
The Ridges GC
Pagoda CC
Peninsula State Park GC
You can probably skip Homestead and version 1 of Tri-City. They were early and don’t live up to quality standards anymore, I mean I was still a teenager when I made these.
Crystal Lake is early too but it’s notable as my only complete fictional course and I don’t think it’s too bad although I’d certainly do things different today. I think it’s a little overly penal with too much water in play. Everything else is real courses and I think they are lower in some rankings because they maybe play too easy for the expert players. My big step forward as far as I'm concerned was with Wisconsin River and there’s steady progression upward from there after that.
Viper wrote:There were courses released for a designing competition I read and courses in a collector's edition of the game. I have no idea what any of those courses are. Is there any info anywhere?
We had four hole by hole contest courses where people submitted hole designs and the community voted on which one would get in the course. All of those are excellent. They are:
The Designers Challenge @ CC Park
Fabita Bay @ 9 Mile Drive
Mai Nui 'ekahi
Mill Creek
Actually I think Mill Creek was everybody just picked a hole and did it. There wasn’t enough participation left for voting at that time.
There have been many complete course contests where the designer designs a complete course on a provided plot and they are voted on. Most of them were prior to 2006 and I don't really remember them but they did produce some good courses. I do remember the most recent in 2011 and all are excellent courses. They are:
Alkimos Golf Links
Glen Haven
Gunpowder Bay
Mamacs Retreat Golf Club
Point Reyes National
The Titanium Edition and Collectors Edition courses were expansions sold by Sierra/Headgate in which community members were paid to design for them. Eventually we were allowed to post them on the internet after the point where they stopped selling them. These are early ones that are probably all worth getting but for sure get the Brian Silvernail designs as he is one of the best course designers of all time whose designed for many different games.
