Now I understand, we do not have designers anymore they are for the most part sculptors preferring to mould the land to their shape instead of working with the natural beauty of the land.
Sorry guys, I understand now, it’s so much easier with a blank canvas, so the easy virus has now
Infected the design process too.
If there are no real limitations apart from money on building a course, I wonder if we will soon be heading back to the early days when money was tight forcing the purchase of smaller plots which would only allow 6 hole course.
Its always easier working with a blank canvas and a pot of money, where is the skill or test in that for a designer, - no do not tell me, let me work it out in my own way. Ye, I see the concept, Castle Courses clones worldwide, the new concept equals the same course layout, the same bumps, dells and Greens. Wherever you play it’s the same, brilliant idea, one design, with hundreds or thousands of design fees. May not do much for the golfer in the end but boy good for making money, however I wonder if the developers would get much of a return on their investment.
Think after a few years it will be a rush to get back to basics, to seek land that you work with, not remould. Gentlemen, for me the land is part, a serious part of the enjoyment of the game, I do not want fake, a Disneyland constructed course, I want a course that exudes feeling and character, that’s worthy of playing upon. While I am certain the sculptured course will convey its self well, I prefer the natural. Yet I know that many like their women with implants to extend their character, but not for me, I know its not real, its fake and it has left scares, but it that floats your boat, hard luck, perhaps your women deserves a little bit more respect. Give me a natural women every time, so I would like the same with my golf courses, be they in Florida or the Lowlands of Scotland.
We all have different tastes and I am told that some prefer blow up rubber dolls to the real thing, well I suppose it takes all sorts, but I must say I have never seen a blow up doll carrying clubs. Then I suppose they don’t insist on having the last word either, perhaps I am starting to warm to the idea, no only joking, like fake courses they have no soul to fire my spirit.
Nevertheless each to his own
Melvyn