Some golf courses are real and then someone comes along and makes a computer game version. This course has aspects that are the opposite, ie a computer game course that’s been transfered to the landscape.
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(All of the following based solely on watching Round 4 on TV yesterday - I had never seen picture of the course before)
I think thats a really interesting observation. There was a moment when I saw the camera angle from behind #16 (the 275 yard downhill par 3) - that I had a moment where I did a double take and asked myself - is that a computer graphic of the hole, or the real thing... and then i realized it was the real thing, but because the edges were sharp and everything was so "perfect looking" it looked like a computer graphic...
Also with both #17 and #18 I did a double take as the holes were so extreme, I couldn't believe they were real (but they are).
I don't understand the bunker faces and why they needed that (foam) material or needed faux riveted faces at all, but i can definitely say I've never seen anything else like it.
I would definitely give this course points for being different and it looks like it would be a lot of fun to play a couple of times if you didn't mind losing a bunch of balls and shooting a (really) high score just for the extremeness of the challenge and uniqueness of the course. Certainly not a course I would want to play every day... If that is Sharma's home course, I see why he is so good - every other course must seem like a piece of cake to him.
Also thought it was quite a compelling tournament to watch