In remembrance of courses past

I’ve been laying out a new course that will be a very long term project. The routing is that of a famous course that sadly no longer exists save for the imposing clubhouse and the lagoon partly shown in the screenshot below.

 

Three of the finest golf architects of all time had input to the design of the  real course. My version isn’t a recreation of that great course but uses the routing and some of the design philosophies that went into this classic links layout.

Once I’ve finished the basic layout of the holes etc the course will be probably laid aside whilst I work on Kauri Cliffs and Blackwolf Run.

The screenshot shows the 3rd green (par 3) right at the bottom of the image whilst the other hole that dominates the picture is a recreation of the par 5 4th which experts still consider one the finest strategic par 5’s ever built.

If anyone wants to guess what the real course name was, a clue. It’s a course that was in the USA and wasn’t in Florida as the screenshot may suggest. As mentioned above it was a 100% links course.