Mike Jones' courses for Links

For golf course design, we recommend setting shut-off valves to Closed in all flow zones but one (such as a fairway or green) before sizing the mainline. You can then size the mainline one zone at a time – opening the valves in areas to size while closing the rest – and working your way throughout the course in this way. Hanse Golf Course Design. We are an intentionally small firm, dedicated to the proposition that golf courses are designed, restored and renovated in the field as opposed to solely on the drawing board. Formed in 1993 by founder Gil Hanse, who was joined in 1995 by partner Jim Wagner, Hanse Golf Course Design has patiently nurtured its. Players can tackle real-life courses such as East Lake Golf Club and TPC Sawgrass with real-time commentary from Luke Elvy and Rich Beem. The Deluxe Edition unlocks a gold-plated driver and putter as well as Adidas-branded cosmetic items for your custom player and an extra 2,300 in-game currency to purchase additional cosmetic items.

Golf Course Software Design

As a professional tournament player, golf course design always facinated and intrigued me. I knew from experience that a good golf course could be fun to play, challenging, and beautiful to look at, all at the same time. However, not many courses manage to tick all these boxes, so when I stopped playing competitively I reflected on some of the great courses I had been fortunate enough to play and tried to decypher what qualities they possesed that made them stand out from the others.

I have spent the best part of the last 10 years, studying books and articles written by some of the best golf course designers ever to have lived. Names that although I recognised, meant little to me in my playing days, suddenly took on the role of my new heroes, Mackenzie, Colt, Macdonald, Ross, Dye to name just a few.

Of course knowledge means little if you don't put it to good use and lacking any real world opportunities to pursue my passion, I began to design and create courses for golf games and simulators such as Microsoft's 'Links' series. Microsoft had seen fit to include an amazingly powerful C.A.D. based design tool along with Links which enabled me to take what I had learned and start putting some of my own creative ideas to the test.

The rest, as they say, is history and in 2009 I released 'Pilgrim Trails' for Links, my 14th design. It was estimated by the servers hosting my courses for online download, that one of my earlier courses 'Northern Dunes' was downloaded over 100,000 times. Nope that's not a mistype - One hundred thousand! This fact was not lost on Microsoft who promptly purchased the rights to the course, renamed it to 'Ayrshire Dunes' and released it at retail worldwide.

Since then each course I have created of my own design has been both an adventure and a learning experience to see if I could match up, at least in a small way to the great creative minds both past and present that provide us with such wonderful golf courses to play.

Best Golf Course Design Software

For the last 7 years I've been privileged to have been able to work with some of the best of the current designers, providing my 3d models and graphics for their designs. I've learned so much, not only about the strategy of great design but also real world concerns such as environmental issues and construction and maintenance cost reduction. I try to put what I've learned back into my own designs.

I'm always on the lookout for better and more versitile software to help create visuals for my golf designer, course owner and developer clients, but more than this, I think if it's worth creating, it's worth playing. This means that all my designs and designs that I create for my clients can actually be played on a normal home computer, laptop computer, or even converted for use on a full size golf simulator.

Golf Course Design Software Free

On this page you can find details of how to find, download and play some of my designs at home, on your own PC.