I'm trying something that should be really interesting. There is a lost ("No Longer Existing") Donald Ross course that has gone to pasture and is untouched. Fort Bragg military base in NC expanded and acquired the land. They used it for training and periodically do controlled burns to keep what used to be the fairways relatively clear. With Chad's lidar import tool, I was able to get a great recent LAS file that didn't take up much space on the object meter. For this project, the trees are basically just forest, so I had Chad's tool ignore them and I auto generated them on the border of the holes.
The history of this course is pretty interesting. They had 1,000+ acres and gave Ross the green light to make the best course that he possibly good with money and space being no object. This isn't far from Pinehurst and it is nice and hilly, so it was the perfect canvas for him. I have his to-scale diagrams of the holes and a decent amount of photos/ aerials.
This is fun and interesting to do, but I also think that it will be a great simulator course. In 1910, it was about 6,500 yards and with these hills, that was very substantial.
I've only completed one hole so far and I probably won't get to the rest until I finish a couple other projects, but here is a preview: I'm experimenting with roughing up the turf for some realism, especially the teeing ground to give it the 1910 North Carolina look.
The history of this course is pretty interesting. They had 1,000+ acres and gave Ross the green light to make the best course that he possibly good with money and space being no object. This isn't far from Pinehurst and it is nice and hilly, so it was the perfect canvas for him. I have his to-scale diagrams of the holes and a decent amount of photos/ aerials.
This is fun and interesting to do, but I also think that it will be a great simulator course. In 1910, it was about 6,500 yards and with these hills, that was very substantial.
I've only completed one hole so far and I probably won't get to the rest until I finish a couple other projects, but here is a preview: I'm experimenting with roughing up the turf for some realism, especially the teeing ground to give it the 1910 North Carolina look.
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