
maybe that comes later? i hope so, it kinda looks very flat through and through
Taste,
Therein lies the reason so many of the more 'understated' courses don't get much love on here.
The course creator, in experienced hands such as yours, is a powerful tool and I like your work but I've seen a number of courses, from numerous designers, where shaping has been completed to such a degree that sometimes it can detract from the overall appearance - as though the course is on steroids.
Now, this is a game, and I get that some people like to see this type of fluff but oftentimes less is more. One thing I learnt from my mentor, who himself was taught by Fred Hawtree, was when to reign things back a little.
He freely admits that during the golf boom years of the late 80's and early 90's golf design was not inhibited by trivial things like money. 'Bigger is better' was the mantra. Why have three bunkers when you can have ten? The number of superfluous bunkers on courses built back then is ridiculous.....
The same goes for mounding / shaping - I have a colleague who once designed a bunker with a dozen or more supporting mounds around it - why? Because he could. No one batted an eyelid. It was the norm.
I see the same thing on here.
The lack of any inhibitive criteria (in the real world money / material) means that designers are free to blow the earth up and create even wilder looking courses.
Retail golfers go mad for this.
The offshoot of this though is that when someone creates a real looking course - like the one here - it is seen as being potentially under-par and not up to standard.
The fact is that most courses of the type Corsair has set out to replicate in the UK are like this and don't require phenomenal amounts of earthwork to make them shine.
Someone once mentioned on here an idea of having a 'budget' to spend on a design - each time you formed something it cost. That would be cool. Trying to balance cut and fill on a site with no hope of importing thousands of cubes of material is an art form in itself.
It would be great to see yourself and a handful of other well-respected designers create something more restrained and less 'retail'.