Take a stab at routing / designing your own course within a mountain environment. Create a routing plan, add design details / strategy, etc...it's your world.
DESIGN CRITERIA:
18-hole (championship) golf course
Short / par 3 course experience
Clubhouse location
Overnight accommodations
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Here's a rough routing that I came up with... Accommodations can probably go between the pond and the "5950" label.
Haven't thought much about the short course yet but one idea I've had for a while is to take a chairlift/tram up a mountain and then play nine par 3s back down.
Keep it going...add some detail and strategies to the holes. A good chart to put together would be elevations for all the tees, landing areas and greens. Will help you visualize the ups and downs of the routing. A tee shot uphill more than 30 or 40 feet is a chore for the golfer. Obviously, a mountainous site will need some heavy earthwork to make things work properly. Keep in mind the cut and fill that would be required to make a routing work nicely.
@nv7 Would love to see you add some detail to the routing. If still interested...
@David Kahn I haven't forgotten! I just finished writing exams today. Will have something shortly.
New Routing...
A few tweaks.
Sorry it’s been so long since I have gotten something up here. We’ve been quite busy down in Houston (fortunately!), but I did want to give this a go. I’ve been using Procreate, so other than having a 100’ grid, I haven’t had a chance to measure the holes, but am hoping to print it out to dial in yardages. The 18 hole routing is in red, occupying the eastern part of the property, while the short course is routed in purple. I was trying to get most of the downhill fall in dramatic holes like the 1st, 3rd, 7th, and 11th, while using the rest of the routing to slowly climb back up the property. This can give the effect of neutralizing the increased distance golfers get at that elevation, making the course shorter and more walkable. I’m also planning on getting a grading plan done and fine tuning the strategy of the holes while doing that, so I’m putting this up now in the hopes that I can get a critique on the routing. Here’s a couple notes I had prior to drawing up grading and starting minor changes to the golf holes: -I want to cut a swale between 10 and 18 to divert the overflow for the pond between those two holes to the ditch running along 11 and 12. This will give the fill needed to soften the 18th fairway and keep the water off the golf course.
-Cutting the fairway down on 13 and filling for the 12th green and the 13th tee, softening that 50’ climb that the routing shows on the tee shot.
-I’m not 100% sure what I want to do about 7, but obviously making a 100’ climb on one hole doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. I’m leaning toward bringing 6 green up with fill and bringing 7 green down a bit. -Good chunk of cut needed to slide the 17th green in between 16 and 18. The bunkers between 16 and 17 will help disguise the cut/fill in that area.