New Course Updates and Strategies 

Thanks Bill. After years in the business, my body/mind were used to a brief winter hiatus. Guess it caught up with me and I'm back on the course(s) again.

I'm hoping for a release of the first course (Blackwater Canyon as of right now) sometime late March. I'm in the painful stage of going hole by hole and planting each shrub, tree and object. It's at least a day per hole. The virginia mountains course will be well beyond that - maybe mid to late spring.

I'm still short time to play too many courses but I'll get there. No COVID for me - but I need to Caribbean vacay to reset and move on. I'll check out the Twitter stuff for sure! Thanks.

Love questions like this.... As a superintendent, I believe that cart paths are a necessary evil to help keep the cattle from driving all over the course. But you don't have to put them in - it's YOUR course. I like to include them BUT I try to do more than just plopping them down in plain view. In some course reviews, I commented on how cartpaths/bridges seem to be the main feature in a view from a tee - and I think that's wrong. Proper placement of cart paths behind trees and mounds - combined with the shaping of the terrain to hide them can do miracles. They are a lot of work to get looking right - as they can look obviously too steep or uneven. I like to see a glimpse of a properly placed cart path now and then but would hate to see it running straight down the side of a fairway - that's just ugly. I REALLY like using the randomly generated trees. Even on the course I'm doing right now (Blackwater Canyon) I often look at certain trees and think they work perfectly into the hole- better than what I could ever create. If anything, the random trees look more realistic than manually placing them - since nature is quite random. When I'm doing a recreation of a real course then I like to use the lidar trees (and species). I then go back in and tweak them for added realism.

@@JerryShields I think the cart paths are ugly to and takes away from the course. I am working on a Lidar area in Tennessee to put my on course on. When I use the Lidar Trees in that area it burns in to your plant meter real bad. So I elected to go with generated trees and through in some of my own trees. Thanks for the videos you do. They are a great help.

I have several request for course recreations and I'm short on time to do them all. Maybe keep watching the channel and when I mention a call for new project ideas then remind me.

No I do not. All my work is done on a PC

It's the theme I'm using - I'll have to double check which ones. It creates a cool look in the distance but is a lot of work planting heavy rough the in the foreground to make the watered part of the course look right. I should do a video on that.