Royal Birkdale

[Polslad]

Must be mad but I've started the next one.

[SteveHorn]

David! Thought you were doing Shinnacock Hills,but happy to see you are doing Royal Birkdale.

[Polslad]

Thought I's start Birkdale.
Brian is doing the Shinnecock plot, same as Fishers Island.
Idle hands and all that.

[ADC]

I look forward to this one. A lot.

[Polslad]

All elevations finished, moved to play test stage now.
2 things jumping out at me:
1. All my approach shots to greens eem to be playing uphill, which I know isn't the case as the landplot is flat.
2. Not sure if I like the look of the bunkering.
They look too big, and have really sharpe edges, just dont look realistic.

[Polslad]

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[SteveHorn]

David! Not sure how Royal Birkdale is, but I do know most true links course's have only a few uphill approach shots and ussually not very much uphill. Shinnecock Hills is one of the exceptions of the flat layout. Bunkers are a tad to sharp on the lip but not sure what is the proper fix. Might try a hugh circle around a grouping of bunkers and smooth once on minimun setting. If it doesn't turn out good then hit the undo button and save each time before trying a fix.

[Polslad]

Here's how it looks another week on.

[SteveHorn]

Looks like its coming along quite nicely. Keep up the good work.

[Pyecraft]

Echo that Steve, just look at all that detail - multiple tee boxes, cartpaths, bunkers, etc. And all accurate I'm betting, very impressive.