Hi, thanks for your comments about my web effort. I had a spare day or two to put it together.
The photos are really just "snaps" with a 5mpx Olympus C-50, although I have taken a few photos in my time and have a reasonable eye for composition. They didn't take long to accumulate as I went round. I put the camera case on my belt so I could just whip it out. Fortunately I played alone, so I had time to take them anyway. The player's guide also has seven "notes" pages at the back, obviously for a reason!
I wanted to really think my way around the course and remember what I'd played, rather than just hit and walk, so taking the photos at the same time actually helped. Fortunately it was a Tuesday, so it was fairly quiet.
I loved playing Barnbougle. I've played most of the sandbelt courses in Melbourne (apart from RM), and I liked Barnbougle better than all of them. It was probably the range of options off the tee and the variety of shots in. In a lot of sandbelt courses, you are still over-tempted to just take driver off most tees, as you need the length. Apart from holes like the 8th and 9th at Barnbougle, and off the "terracotta" tees, length for me was not so much an issue. It was more accuracy and placement, and I liked that. Maybe the calm weather also had a lot to do with it. Also, a lot of pins were towards the front on the day.
The fescue fairways were also something different from the usual Melbourne couch, and I found them just as good.
Regarding the hole diagrams, I hope they don't mind me using them all. I casually asked whether I could use one or two to show the course to friends, maybe they didn't expect me reproducing the whole book. I thought with drawing red lines all over them they wouldn't really be useable anyway. It will probably encourage more people to buy the guide.
I hope Barnbougle makes it long-term as a financial proposition. It is too good a course to not do so.