World Golf News

Mountain Creek Golf Club..

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:05:28 +0000

Just uploaded Mountain Creek Golf Club, at worldofgolfonline.com, Enjoy

TPC Boston

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:40:32 +0000

Just finishing Mountain Creek be out in about week, I have decided to design a real course TPC Boston., Thanks, Terry Armstrong

World of golf online . com

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:16:37 +0000

Yes, we have it up now, a fictional golf course, Enjoy

Tropical Bay Golf Club...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:47:07 +0000

I uploaded the file on December 29th at world of golf online .com, it is still not up for download yet, I hope soon., Thanks, Terry Armstrong

Tropical Bay Golf Club..

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:55:24 +0000

Hello really enjoying designing for Custom Play Golf, I will be releasing a new course in about a week. Tropical Bay Golf Club a Fictional Course that looks and play like a real course. Thanks, Terry Armstrong

Green Valley CC Preview

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:39:49 +0000

Located in Pennsylvania

A shorter course at 6750 yards but some tricky holes. Good players should be under par. A fun and moderately challenging course. Should be ready for download this week.

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Riverbend Golf Club released

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:52:38 +0000

Terry Armstrong has released Riverbend Golf Club.

I wasn't sure if this was a real course or not but have uploaded it to the Real Courses section.

Dave.

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Somerset Hills Country Club 2011 released

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:54:11 +0000

ZONA, (Jeff Helton), has kindly let me upload his latest course rendition, Somerset Hills Country Club 2011, for the Community to enjoy.

You will find it in the Real Courses download section.

Dave.

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Cabo de Sol released

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:50:15 +0000

Cabo de Sol by Terry Armstrong.

This course is now available in the download Real Courses section.

Dave.

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Oceanview released

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:56:40 +0000

Oceanview has now been uploaded to the Fictional Courses download section.

Dave.

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Somerset Hills Country Club - Preview

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:53:32 +0000

Course is finished, just a few minor tweaks needed. Should be made available here within a few days.

Course designed by A.W. Tillinghast in 1918 I believe. The club was founded in 1899 (wow that was a long time ago) but was later moved to the new location (over an old horse racetrack in New Jersey) where Tillinghast worked his magic. Not the longest course (about 6700 yards) but hitting the fairways is difficult due to the doglegs, odd angles and elevation changes. Turning up the wind really doubles the difficulty factor because of the extreme elevations on many of the holes. Most bunkers are shallow but the very thick and long dead rough makes up for them since it creeps very close to the fairways and greens.

Hope you all enjoy it. BJ actually has played this course in real life since he grew up close by and when play testing he remembered many of the holes and referenced how difficult the course actually played, pretty cool. This course is featured in Golf Digest top 100 US courses.

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Cabo del Sol 2011...good news...

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:17:26 +0000

Yes, the Cabo del Sol 2011 is up now at world of golf online. I am sure glad we got this one fixed and playable. Now I can move on the Entrada of Snow Canyon: This long testy layout in southern Utah was designed by johnny Miller. It is an heroic course, comparable to The Belfry in challenge, although completely different in geographical character, demanding length as well as accuracy off the tees. Only one of the par-3's is less than 200 yards and they're a challenge to find in the frequent winds of the west. There are multiple elevation changes and the last 4 holes journey through an ancient lava bed, which adds variety as well as challenge to the golfer's long difficult trek., Thanks, Terry Armstrong

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Cabo de Sol

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:21:33 +0000

We have Cabo de Sol ready for download at http://www.worldofgolfonline.com Steve Faupel did the 3D Structures for Cabo de Sol, Thanks, Terry Armstrong

Upload..

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:05:42 +0000

Just uploaded Cabo de Sol......, Thanks, Terry Armstrong

Canterbury GC Preview

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:41:05 +0000

Course is finished, just adding some last minute tweaks.

Canterbury Golf Club

Cleveland, OH
Designer: Herbert Strong
Design Year: 1921
Par 71 7,061 yards

Western Open: 1932, 1937

U.S. Open: 1940, 1946

PGA Championship: 1973

U.S. Amateur: 1964, 1979

Senior Players Championship: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986

U.S. Senior Open: 1996

Senior PGA Championship: 2009

Ohio Amateur: 2006

Ohio Amateur Qualifier: 2004

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Aronimink & Sunningdale 2011 now available

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:25:33 +0000

Both courses are now available at World Of Golf Online

Red Chain Portal Gone?

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:53:33 +0000

Somebody on the forum at my Golf Sim Clubhouse website is interested in checking out the game but I don't know where to direct them. I know the store is gone but even just to download the demo? When you go to the Red Chain website there's no place to go to download the portal anymore and the old link I had (http://www.redchaingames.com/portal.htm) comes back with a 404 error.

Aronimink Golf Club Preview

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:09:36 +0000

Aronimink Golf Club - Newton Square, PA
7190 Yards Par 70
Designed by Donald Ross in 1926 (Club was founded in 1896)
1962 PGA Championship, the 1977 U.S. Amateur Championship, the 1997 United States Junior Amateur Championship and the 2003 Senior PGA Championship, AT&T National Championship in 2010 and 2011.

Course Website: Aronimink Golf Club
Course Video: Aronimink Flyby Video

As you can tell from the screenshots - the course is finished. Should be uploaded within a week. Thanks to Steve Danut for his help on the models.
The course is an early American Classic style layout. The rough is lush and the greens are fast. It was fun to make and it's just as fun to play it.

World Golf Challenge Interview

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:35:13 +0000

Several weeks ago we polled the community for its questions regarding the upcoming version of World Golf Challenge. We'd like to thank everyone for all the great questions that were submitted. Dean Baker, Managing Directer of Red Chain Games Ltd. was nice enough to take some time out of his busy schedule to provide several answers to your questions. When reading the following interview, please note that Dean asks for your input several times throughout.

24-HR Network: Can you give us a little insight as to why World Golf Challenge is being rebuilt from scratch with an all-new engine?
Dean Baker: We always build from scratch, there’s no point reusing old technology, it can always be improved on and if you’re not continually updating you can’t hope to be the best. Creating the best golf game is our goal and software/hardware has moved on so quickly and allows us to do so much more that we have to take advantage of the very late test developments, that requires starting over.

24-HR Network: Do you anticipate there being a community beta test for World Golf Challenge prior to its release?
Dean Baker: Yes, definitely.

24-HR Network: When do you expect for the new game to be competed and released?
Dean Baker: Progress is going better than expected but it’s still very early days, given our ambitious goals we would hope to beta next year, beyond that we can’t say yet. At the moment we’re putting all the building blocks in place, to handle textures, objects, shaders, lighting etc, we hope to start prototyping the more fun, graphical elements shortly.

24-HR Network: Can you tell us how much World Golf Challenge will cost?
Dean Baker: Our best guess is $20. Our current plan is to sell the editor and game separately, the editor will probably be $10. If you want to use the editor to make money we will require the purchase of a commercial license.

24-HR Network: What current architect features will be improved?
Dean Baker: Everything will be replaced and streamlined, taking into account everyone’s comments and to ensure maximum ease of use and therefore, speed of creation.

24-HR Network: This is kind of a broad question, but what new features might we expect in the course architect?
Dean Baker: I don’t want to reveal anything yet we are currently prototyping some ideas, that are radically different to what has gone before. Our aim is to dramatically speed up the process of building a course and hopefully at least halve the current time it takes.

24-HR Network: Will courses from previous versions of the game continue to work with the new version of the game?
Dean Baker: Because of the changes we’re not sure that will be possible, if it is we will do it.

24-HR Network: Will file sizes for the courses remain the same, or will they become bigger/smaller?
Dean Baker: It’s too early to tell. We will try keep the sizes down but as the courses become more complex, with more detail, higher resolution textures etc it’s only natural that they get bigger.

24-HR Network: Will the Game and Course Architect be released in one package, or will they be separate purchases?
Dean Baker: We’re not 100% certain but we may provide a package of both, despite releasing them individually.

24-HR Network: What version of DirectX will the game use?
Dean Baker: We’re using DX11 for development as it gives us huge advantages over previous versions. If and when 12 comes out we’ll look to support that too.

24-HR Network: Will players be able to launch the game through its own executable file, rather than having to launch the game through the portal?
Dean Baker: Hopefully yes, we’re looking at Steam as our model, which will allow a shortcut to launch the app directly.

24-HR Network: Will there be a season mode or career mode?
Dean Baker: We don’t have it designed yet but we will add them at some point.

24-HR Network: Will there be more player creation features available, regarding things like hair, skin tone, height etc?
Dean Baker: We will endeavour to allow more choice with regards to the players, while we have no plans for a character customisation tool, we will consider it in the future.

24-HR Network: Will there be more accessories added to the game, such as clubs, balls, shirts, hats etc?
Dean Baker: Yes, we hope to provide a much wider range of accessories and equipment, as well as a simpler system for importing your own.

24-HR Network: Can we look forward to things like a spectator gallery and commentary?
Dean Baker: There are currently no plans for this but if enough people want it we will reconsider.

24-HR Network: Can you tell us what kind of changes, if any, are in store for the mouse swing?
Dean Baker: We want to make some minor tweaks but nothing major.

24-HR Network: Can you tell us what kind of changes, if any, are in store for the click swing?
Dean Baker: We think this needs a more serious overhaul and we have to ensure it’s nice and smooth, regardless of frame-rate. Again, if someone could start a thread on the fansite for ideas, that would be great.

24-HR Network: Might we possibly see a "game controller" swing added to the game.
Dean Baker: We’d not considered it but I don’t see why not, please let us know what you’d prefer on the fansite, thanks.

24-HR Network: Will there be different swing animations in the game?
Dean Baker: Yes, they will all be replaced with new and improved ones.

24-HR Network: Many people love the difficulty of World Golf Challenge. Will the game maintain the current level of difficulty?
Dean Baker: We want to keep the difficulty for experienced players but improve the accessibility for newcomers. We also want to add an all new Pro mode which will be even harder!

24-HR Network: Some people say that hitting a driver off the fairway is too easy. Are there any plans to adjust this and other shots in the game?
Dean Baker: Yes, we want to make the game more accessible at first but their must a punishment for mishits at a higher level.

24-HR Network: Some people would like an option to play the game on much easier settings. Are there any plans to have clearly different difficulty levels in the game?
Dean Baker: Yes, our current goal is to introduce a handicap system to allow the player to advance to harder settings and use harder to control equipment.

24-HR Network: Can you share with us some of the things you are most excited about in the new version of World Golf Challenge?
Dean Baker: At the moment, it’s all very exciting, we’re really looking forward to prototyping the graphics and editor as they will have tangible results. We’re most looking forward to see what the new technology allows us to do in terms of short/long grass, lighting, effects, water (flow, waves, spray, waterfalls etc) and much more. Please keep an eye out for our soon be launched Dev Diary where we will update monthly on progress and provide screenshots and trailers. We hope to begin this around the end of September, depending on our progress. Thanks again for all the help and support, without you all this would not be possible.

Ask the WGC Development Team

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:54:12 +0000

This thread is now closed. We will be compiling the questions and forward them to Red Chain Games over the weekend. Thanks!

As some of you may have read earlier this year at 24-HR Network, Dean Baker announced that Red Chain Games is working on a whole new engine for World Golf Challenge. We thought it would be fun to allow our members to take a peek into what is in store for WGC. Dean has graciously said that he would do his best to answer our questions. But we're going to take it a step further . . . because we know that you are the ones that should be asking these questions. After all, you are the ones that are playing and designing for this great game.

That being said, this thread will be open until July 22. We ask you, the great 24-HR Network community, to submit question here for Dean and Red Chain Games about World Golf Challenge. After the question-submission time period has passed, we will bring your questions to Dean for some answers!

Before submitting your questions, please read the following ground rules:

Please keep in mind that all questions will not be able to be answered. This is due to time constraints and also because it might be too early in the development process to give an answer to a particular question.
Keep in mind that some answers may include information about intended features that may or may not be included in the final product.
We reserve the right to edit grammar and sentence structure of any question - and also to combine question regarding the same subject matter.
If we do not fully understand a question, we may send you a private message here at this site for clarification.
This thread is for QUESTIONS ONLY. If you would like to speculate about a certain question, we absolutely welcome you to create another thread in this forum.

Let the questions begin!

Torrey Pines - South Course 2011 Released

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:26:02 +0000

This should be a pretty accurate rendition of the South Course at Torrey. I used 3M lidar data for the base plot elevations. About 1/2 way thru the design phase I took a trip out to Cali to play a round on the real deal which was a great experience and very helpful for detailing out green slopes. The surface properties for green, fringe and fairway are custom. The greens are a bit slicker yet smoother than stock but more importantly the fringe and fairway have more realistic roll values. I also spent a fair amount of time modeling many location specific objects, including some paragliders you may notice catching currents near the cliffs above Black Beach:).
Thanks to Zona, Smokinjo', Nike, Russ, Sam, Brian S and anyone else I missed for helping play test and offering feedback over the past few months.

Course is available on the World of Golf Online website. Enjoy!
http://www.worldofgo...es/courses/real

BJ

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New Course - Congressional CC Blue Course (2011 US OPEN)

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:32:50 +0000

Congressional Country Club - Blue Course (2011 US OPEN)
Bethesda, MD

BJ and myself finished this joint project a few days ago. Hopefully everybody will enjoy it. It's a challenging course but if you can hit the fairways, you have a good chance to shoot under par. Although the rough is thick and the greens are fast, it's a fair test.

I uploaded the course already to World of Golf Online (WOGO) and it should be available shortly in the course downloads area. I also tried to upload the course here but the file size limitations here (102MB) prevented the upload. Maybe that should be increased for future reference. The zip file is 145MB. I'll attach some images. Admins here can download from WOGO or contact me directly for my mediafire link. We'd like to make this available as soon as possible so people can enjoy the course this weekend as they watch the real tournament live.

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Lone Wolf Golf Club - Released

Wed, 11 May 2011 15:26:03 +0000

ZONA, aka Jeff Helton has released another very nice course for the Community to enjoy.

Lone Wolf is available from the Downloads section.

Dave.

Sail Boat Add On

Mon, 09 May 2011 17:29:02 +0000

Brian Silvernail has kindly released some Sail Boat add ons for designers to use. They are available from the Download section.

On another similar note Jeff has uploaded a new course but I have noticed a slight bug in it so it wont be available until Dean and Jeff find out what the problem is....

The course looks great though Jeff. Looking forward to it.

Dave.

WGC Updates

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:07:38 +0000

World Golf Challenge 2011 has been updated.

22nd February. Try before you buy! You can download a demo of World Golf Challenge 2011 from the demos tab now.

23nd February. You can now make the golfer see-through by pressing the 'V' key. You can also re-assign this key via the "Controls" options. This will be especially useful if you are putting across a strong slope at such an angle that the hole is hidden by the golfer. (A nice little tweak for the game as suggested by Jeff Helton on the 17th February. Thanks to Dean and Rich for getting it in so quickly).

Dave.

New Course Release - Hazeltine National 2011

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:56:04 +0000

Screenshots of Hazeltine National 2011 by Joe Habiger

Related:
Download - Hazeltine National 2011

PGA National at The Belfry - Available

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:20:56 +0000

I've had this done now since mid December and simply just forgot to upload it.

Hope you guys enjoy it. Feel free to make comments if you choose. It should be in the download section by now. I uploaded it last night. You can check out some screenshots same place you download it.

Hazeltine National 2011 Released

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:27:34 +0000

You can delete the other Hazeltine National GC.CGP in your golf folder and install this Hazeltine National.CGP in it's place as it is so much improved over it's 2 year old twin.

Changed trees, textures, new longer yardages according to Hazeltine's Website, new course overlay, improved greens, added and moved some bunkers to reflect longer yardages.

EDIT: Please check the main 24hr webpage for the news section or you might not know when it's live to download. I only bookmark this forum!!

Newest Course Released for WGC2011

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:24:03 +0000

The Wisley Golf Club located in Surrey, England has been uploaded and approved and is awaiting you in the downloads section.

Special thanks to all the testers from last Friday night for the feedback because I did miss a few things before that, also thanks to B.J. for showing me this course and asking me if I wanted to finish it. It's a beautiful and slightly challenging course that really wasn't that hard to do, and I believe this is the first 27 hole course out there so have fun with it.

I should have Hazeltine done tonight or tomorrow but that overhead with all it's trees,shadows and shadows IN THE FAIRWAYS are causing me a slow death, I just still hope it looks Ok in the end..lol

WG2011 Official Update - New Course Released

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:50:54 +0000

Happy Holidays! To celebrate this festive season we have released a new fantasy course called "Arcadia Ranch" by Jeff Helton. As always, you can download it from the courses tab in the Portal.

Click here to view the article

Forum Thread Names

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:25:50 +0000

I've updated the Forum thread names and the main download page names.

There still seems to be several variations of the game name from Hank Haneys World Golf, World Golf Challenge 2011 to just World Golf 2011 so I'll leave it as it is for now and see what transpires.

Dave.

Portal Download Speed Bug

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:15:44 +0000

In the latest update we have attempted to fix the slow download speed bug that affected some users of Vista and Win 7. Please feedback in this thread if you have any problems, thanks.

Updates Thread

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:13:55 +0000

This thread is for us to provide details of the latest updates to you, starting today...We will be updating today (25th Sept 2010) with the following: -

* The ability to edit the club face angle while practising, with changes being saved for future play

* Several PlayMail changes and fixes

* Change the text colour for names in the lobby to signify who is and isn't currently playing

* Create Tournament option

* Portal download speed bug fix - please see the separate thread...

New Characters have been uploaded..

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:39:42 +0000

Thanks to BJ Weworski and anyone else involved in the project.

Game and Portal changes

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:09:13 +0000

We're in the middle of making some changes to the name, logo, portal etc over the next few days and there may be some disruption, such as the demos disappearing for a short time, for which we apologise. Everything should be back to normal fairly soon and the changes will be worth it.

Celtic Manor 2010 Course - Ryder Cup Edition released!

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 02:04:46 +0000

Finally and I guess better late than never. After several unsuccessful attempts to publish the course I was able to find a solution. Only the main hole shapes have blends as I believe the publishing problem was being caused by blends on the imported single spline cart paths. I really wanted to get the course released ASAP for everyone to enjoy so some concessions were made due to time limitations. There are certain regions of the course which could use additional trees (notably hole 15) but because of the publishing error I opted to keep the default imported plantings as is and the course overlay in these area untouched. That said, Jim Dickson did a great job on the original CPG1 version and this conversion plays very well. Tricky greens, deep bunkers and plenty of water will challenge you off the tee and on approach shots.

Hope you enjoy!

BJ

Celtic Manor 2010

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:56:56 +0000

Hate to announce that the course was not released before the Ryder Cup play as planned. While attempting to publish the course last night I got a pop up run time error and it did not finish pubbing. Last time I checked it was at 49% (12:30am) then the next time I checked (2:15am) the error message was showing. I've never had this happen before but I'm assuming it has something to do with either a poly or point count threshold because the course is a real pig in general. Unfortunately, after getting minimal sleep (figured I stay up to watch some of the Ryder Cup action til it got rain delayed) I'm now stuck at work for the next 8 hours or so. I'll try optimizing the plot and removing any unnecessary blends and then hopefully the course will publish. If it still doesn't I'll have to send it to Rich/Dean to inspect. Sorry folks.

BJ

Future Watch

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:37:48 +0000

As requested in another thread I'll try to give you a feel for our future plans in this thread, as and when we have any. I've been loathe to say much recently, partly because we haven't had much to say and because we're always about a year later delivering, anything we do say. That said we hope to have some news about a retail launch soon, about 3 years late admittedly and this will include a name change. The lack of a proper retail release and the loss of several publishers along the way has really hurt us, as portal sales are nowhere near sufficient, so hopefully finally getting it in stores will help. It will, for the first time ever for us, include a US release.

As of 30th September 2010 our plans are as follows: -

SHORT TO MEDIUM TERM - to continue a series of occaisional updates including edit loft angle in practice mode, Foursomes, Fourballs, concede option, Tournament creator, editor changes in the wishlist threads and more.

LONG TERM - re-do everything over from scratch to take advanatage of the latest Windows, Graphics Cards, DirectX etc to create the best looking, best playing, most fully featured golf game ever.

Royal Links - giving props

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 06:12:05 +0000

Just finished up a round at Kennemer (Royal Links) with Rat and just wanted come here and give some mad props to that course. We haven't played it in a long time and I had forgotten what a gem that course is. Extremely well made from tee to green, plays fantastic and it's quite a looker also. Most ecellent work there Rat man

Great match we had also, think we tied at -5.

So if you haven't played that course at all or in quite some time, go play it.

CPG2010 default Course/Resource folder suggestion

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:24:05 +0000

I understand that the reason why the game installs to the current default locations was made necessary due to a Vista security access issue originally. However, these locations are difficult to locate for many users because they are hidden by the OS as system folders I believe a simple change could be made. The core game files would still be auto-installed as they currently are but the user should be prompted with a popup during installation giving them a choice of where to install the Course and Resources folders. *Also, by default the installer should pre-fill a typical program files path (C:\Program Files for XP). At least this way if the user just clicks OK to the default path they will still be able to easily access these folders at a later date for adding downloaded courses and resources from 24hr.

In summary my suggestion is to help prevent the confusion that is often posted regarding how to install custom courses and resources. With the current system the user has to figure it out on their own, usually via a forum post about how to change the folder paths which is ultimately frustrating.

BJ

Playmail?

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:09:06 +0000

The update said this is operational again but I don't see anything new on my playmail tab. There is a folder for sent and recieved but I don't see any options on how to find or add people in order to send messages to them.

tournaments

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:46:07 +0000

are you going to set up some tournaments or make so we can

CustomPlay Golf Update 9/15/10

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:37:00 +0000

3 new putting courses are now available for you to download from the courses tab. They are: "Midland Putting Course" by Jeff Helton, "Enchanted Forest Mini-Putt" and "Path of Patience" by Jim Dickson. Many thanks to Jim and Jeff for their excellent work.
PlayMail has been fixed and is fully operational once again.
CustomPlay Golf 2010 has been updated. For a full list of changes please see the update history.
We have merged "Pitch and Putt" with "Par 3". Please move any courses you have in your "P&P" folder to your "Par3" folder.
The aiming stick can be toggled on or off by pressing S.
The aiming stick is placed between the ball and the cup if the putter is selected or the shot type is chip.

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Brackenwood Hills GC for CustomPlay Golf released

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:05:59 +0000

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.

Delete this post

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:16:02 +0000

Blade,

Go ahead and delete this post if you would, since nobody is going to reply. Oh well, tried to start a fun topic, guess I won't be doing that anymore, lol.

Jubilee Course released for CustomPlay Golf

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:22:59 +0000

Brian Silvernail has released the Jubilee Course at St Andrews.

Built in 1897, the Jubilee Course at St. Andrews first started out as a 12 hole course where ladies and beginners could play. In 1905, it was expanded to 18 holes and in 1988 it was re-designed to championship standards by Donald Steel.

This is a conversion of a course I created for the original Custom Play Golf. I would like to thank Steve Richardson for the use of his St. Andrews town objects. Thanks also to John Drolet for his help with the course and to Jim Dickson and Mike Jones for playtesting.

Jubilee Course at St. Andrews Golf Links Released

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:55:11 +0000

I have uploaded my recreation of the Jubilee Course at St. Andrews Golf Links. I have also uploaded a tutorial on creating sod wall bunkers in CPG2010. Hopefully both files will be approved for download soon. Enjoy the course!

Brian

Courses in development

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:41:31 +0000

Hi guys -

I was just curious now that the last round of courses has been released (Coeur D'Alene, Sunningdale, BroBalsta, etc.) what course(s) may be in the works now. I love seeing what some of you are able to produce - it's a fine art really!

CustomPortal Downloading - IMPORTANT

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:57:40 +0000

Hi All,

For any users who are having problems with the Game/Course/Resources download speeds in CustomPortal try this.

Open the CustomPortal.

Go to the "Store" tab.

Click the "Buy Now - $30" button.

Let the next page load fully. (Don't worry. You are not actually buying anything at this point).

When it has loaded go to the Game or Courses tab and try and download the Game /Course or Resources you want and you should see a massive improvement in the download speed.

Example: My speed went up from 15kb to 245kb which is not the best but is about 1533% speed increase if my maths is correct.

I hope this helps.

Dave.

Game Update 12/08/10

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:23:21 +0000

CustomPlay Golf 2010 Update 12/08/10

When on the green, the aiming marker is now half way between the ball and the cup and is much smaller.
Transparency of the aiming marker is determined by distance from the cup (within 0.2m - totally transparent).
Previous bug fix failed to make it into the previous release (re: shadows on Brackenwood).
Can now move the ball on the tee before your first shot on each hole. Click the ball and drag.
(Editor) Added new "Forest 2D" option. When selected, the Forest dialog now contains a "Dimensions" button to set the base size of the object.
Increased the maximum value for "Putting Sensitivity" to 4.

ZONA, on 11 August 2010 - 12:02 PM, said:

Thanks for the update info Dean. I'm sure the new sensativity on putting will be fantastic and hopefully the new putting aiming is a simple surface arrow. I still would love to have that surface arrow on all shots and just get rid of the aiming pole altogether. Pefect example: RAT and I were playing Majilis (or something like that) and the 18th hole is a severe dog leg left. With that aiming pole, you can tell exactly where your ball is going to land and just how much to cut off. If all you had was the arrow, it would be a much tougher judgement on just how much to cut off on the dog leg. You would know the direction you are hitting but you would not have that darn pole out there saying "this is where your ball is going to land". My vote is to either remove that pole or make it an option your can turn on or off.

What would you do with the arrow if you're right up agianst a steep bunker face or against an object etc?

Sunningdale & BroBalsta - Now Re-Released

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:08:25 +0000

Hi All,

Jeff has reuploaded his 2 latest courses and they sure are fine recreations and great fun to play.

They are now available for download in the Real Courses section.

Dave.

Sunningdale & BroBalsta - Released

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:34:40 +0000

Not sure if everybody checks the download section so just a quick FYI - both courses are ready for download. I hope you enjoy them.

Latest Update 05/08/10

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:45:45 +0000

Question for Dean,

One of the bug fixes on the latest update fixes the player alignment with the pin on mini courses. Why not the full sized courses also? The player is never directly aiming at the pin.

If a CPU player takes 10 or more shots on a hole, he now forfeits the hole.
BUG FIX: Fixed the camera used after the ball is in the cup (previously the camera would often be placed inside the character).
Offer Easy/Medium/Hard pin difficulty for mini golf courses.
BUG FIX: Shadows not being rendered on Brackenwood golf course.
Flag now animates even when semi-transparent (i.e. when reach green).
BUG FIX: On mini-golf courses, player now lines up correctly with the pin when on green.

La Tempete and Fairmont Le Manoir

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:45:45 +0000

As a Canadian, I'm curious about how CPG goes about licensing a course for rendering. Specifically, the two Canadian courses, La Tempete and Fairmont le Manoir. Do the courses provide data about the course layout? Is the rendering done by someone at CPG? Just curious as I like both courses. Thanks.

Royal Troon released!

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:43:22 +0000

Royal Troon Tour is ready for downloading. Welcome to Royal Troon Golf Club...founded in 1878. The Old Course today presents a stern golfing examination. Completed with tour objects, and more, Enjoy.

Designed by Terry Armstrong

New Course

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:24:28 +0000

Royal Troon Tour is ready for downloding. Welcome to Royal Troon Golf Club...founded in 1878. The Old Course today presents a stern golfing examination. Completed with tour objects, and more, Enjoy.

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Upcoming Courses

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:25:19 +0000

Hi guys -

I don't know if the old 24 hour gaming site is up anymore (I lost my link to it), but there was a thread on there where someone (BJ?) listed a bunch of courses in various stages of development. I thought it might be good to paste that list over to the new site for anyone interested in what's on the horizon. If there are any ETAs for completion (even if just guesstimates), that would be great to know too. Almost more than playing, I simply enjoy seeing the new courses that people put so much work into. Some of them really are a showcase for the software and are beautiful to look at. The Coeur D'Alene is a great recent example...really a great-looking rendition!

Anyway, if anyone has the list of in-progress or planned courses, please post it here. Of course other designers can be working on other courses independently, but the list being worked on by some of you "core" guys was nice to see.

Rob

Sunningdale & BroBalsta Preview

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:32:40 +0000

CustomPlay Golf for Wii console

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:31:22 +0000

Hi everyone, just need to know if CustomPlay Golf will ever be available for the Nintendo Wii console as I'd much prefer to use a motion sensor than a mouse or keyboard. Maybe I should write to the company.

Dave S.

What's with all the connectivity problems lately?

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:24:09 +0000

It seems over the past several weeks there are quite a few connectivity problems with CPG and Portal. I see it and a few others I golf with see it. You launch Portal and it keeps saying unable to connect to server and then after 5 or 6 tries later it finally connects. And this is now happening almost every time I launch Portal. Then once you connect and try to join a game online, half the time it tells you that you can't connect to the host or that the server is full. Once again, after 5 or 6 tries and 10 minutes later, it will finally let you join. I don't understand why this is happening and it sure is more then frustrating.

Just need to vent

Buying the game

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:26:47 +0000

Where does one go to purchase the game???

CustomPlay Golf Updates

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:44:56 +0000

There have been a couple of updates this weekend for CustomPlay Golf as follows...

9th July

Press Ctrl+M at any time to display memory information.
Fixed the "disappearing textures" bug seen after changing screen resolution.

12th July

Fixed a problem introduced from the previous update - relating to the height of moving objects. Note to designers: the code has been split so old courses continue to use the old method but new courses (i.e. any course saved after this update) will use the new code. You should load and re-save any course you are working on and then check all moving objects behave as you wish.

Dave.

Coeur d'Alene and Belfry Brabazon released!

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:57:02 +0000

The Belfry is an exceptional rendition by Jim Dickson that was originally created in CPG1 and then updated for CPG2010. The course is revered for hosting 4 memorable Ryder Cups and it is an ideal choice for online match play. There are a lot of great holes such as the drivable par 4 10th and difficult 18th with approach over water to a heavily guarded green with multiple tiers.

CDA is a course that I started back during CPG1 days and have updated in stages for each new version of the game. The final 2010 version features the animated "putter boat" on the famous island green 14th hole, custom trees and a bunch of superb custom objects created by my good friend Steve Richardson. During testing we found the course setups really well for Modified Stableford format thanks to the many high risk/reward holes.

Hope you guys enjoy both of these courses!

BJ

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Update and New "Official" Course for CustomPlay Golf

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:45:53 +0000

CustomPlay Golf have released 2 'updates' for the Community today.

The first is several small bug fixes and patches for the game as follows...CustomPlay Golf 2010 Update History

BroBalsta Preview

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:55:43 +0000

Getting close to finishing this course up. Been working on it for a solid month now. A new set of custom trees will be planted hopefully this week sometime. A few screenshots to show you (without the new trees).

2 new courses uploaded - Kingsbarns & Estonia

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:31:03 +0000

Both are real courses and can be found under the 2010 real course folder. Hope you enjoy them. Feedback is always welcome.

Kingsbarns - a links style course just a hop skip and a jump from St. Andrews along the coast line. Make sure you turn up the wind a bit. Not that many trees and the course defense relies on those strong gusts. Actually, the course is layed out in a similar fashion to St. Andrews, with most of the holes lining up in a single direction, and then back the opposite way. A strong sidewind coming off the ocean can make this course a real pain. A great golf challenge.

Estonia - not an overly challenging course but there are some really nice holes here. The course doesn't have alot of length but there are a few holes that are very long. Also a few very tricky tiered greens can jump out at you.

- Jeff

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New courses?

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:06:26 +0000

Hey guys -

Now that the new site is up, I was hoping the coeur d'alene, belfry and royal troon courses would show up on here. Any ETA on when they might be uploaded? I'm looking forward to seeing them!

Portal Update 18/06/10

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:57:07 +0000

An update has been released for the Custom Portal.

Details as Follows...

When changing the path to the courses folder (via the Settings dialog) - no longer move any files and no longer impose any restrictions on where the folder is located. Please note: if you change the path you are now responsible for moving any course files. You may need to restart CustmoPortal for the courses tab to be updated.

Muirfield Village

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:36:56 +0000

Terry Armstrong has released a new version of Muirfiled Village for the Community to enjoy. As he has stated that it fixes issues with the previously released version of the course I have removed the previous version to replace it with this one and suggest members do the same with their golf course collection!.

Dave (Blade).

"Fife Old Golf Links" Released

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:21:26 +0000

At first glance you might not recognise the name but this is a rendition of one of the most famous golf courses, if not the most golf famous course, in the world.

Beautifully recreated by B.J. Weworski aka Desert Rat.

This one should be in everyones collection!

Thanks to Steve Richardson for the superb objects.

Dave.

CustomPlay Golf June 2nd Game Update

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:25:05 +0000

Two new courses have been released for CustomPlay Golf 2010. The first is a magnificient, licensed course in Quebec: "La Tempete". The second is a fantasy course created by Jim Dickson called "Hidden Shoals". As always, if you own the game then you can download them from the courses tab in the Portal.

CustomPlay Golf 2010 has also been updated. This update improves the DXF import feature.