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My courses, (so far at least), are fictional, but I always try to make them feel and play realistically. To this end I used a real course for inspiration.

Brackenwood Hills GC, (Par 72), is a fictional course based on the layout/routing of a Municipal golf course near my home called simply Brackenwood. I laid the basic plot out using an aerial image but knew from the start that the course length would play too easy in this game, so my goal was to toughen it up a bit mainly by lengthening the holes a bit and some minor re-routing to accomodate what I wanted to do with the course. The other thing I wanted on this course was some elevation as not too many 'elevated' courses have been done for this game. After generally optimising the landplot how I wanted it I selected the 3 main areas that would suit my needs and put in the hills that give this course it's name. The one other thing I tried to do with this layout was to put the course onto the plot with as little 'tweaking' as possible so there are no multi level, or tricked up greens

The real Brackenwood is a beautiful course but as with many Municipals it's bunkers are unremarkable and few so I have used the same basic technique on all the bunkers on the course so they all have a similar look and feel regardless of the shape I have used and have also not used that many bunkers per hole. I have used minimal planting of trees so that where possible you can see several tees,fairways and holes as you look across the course especially from some elevated viewpoints.

The custom duck sounds I found on the internet. The custom flag I somehow managed to make myself!

Thanks go to Steve Richardson for his ducks, John Drolet for his cars, BJ for the boats, Dean and Rich for taking the time to fix the bug that caused this course to have no shadows on it, Dave Farmer for the Course Overlay and to Jim Dickson for a little inspiration. (It means a lot to me when a 'noted' designer, someone I look up to, takes the time to tell me he likes the look of my course and the way it plays). Also thanks to anyone who has commented on my course based on the screenshots and videos I have posted on the site.

I hope you enjoy playing it as much as I had fun designing it.


Dave.
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