Mark Kewley › Disc Fanatics of Kansas January 31, 2013 at 9:26am
Fairmont Design
When I play the design layouts, here are a few things I’m looking at:
Flow. Do you have to backtrack or cross other fairways?
Safety. Are players or others in the line of fire, Blind corners, etc.
Difficulty. With one tee, the holes need to be hard enough to challenge those of us that play all the time but not so evil they totally crush the souls of beginners.
Entertainment. I want to have fun playing these holes.
Other than that I would like to see some holes with more than one route to the pin. Maybe something that forces me to do something I don’t want to do.
I’m taking notes. There are going to be a lot of layouts.
Anyone have something else they are looking for when playing the layouts?
(1) Multiple pin placements whenever possible. Don't just stop at 2 either. If you can find 3 or 4 go for it! It is a very inexpensive way to keep a course interesting for the long haul.
(2) Don't throw AT adjacent private property, unless that property is a "long way away" or it has a good buffer (trees & brush).
I think what Rick said about multiple pin placements is really key to everyone being happy with the back 9. We can make one placement very challenging and another placement that isn't as challenging but still fun to shoot at our for more advanced players a good ace run. We can balance the course with different placements...heck even different par scores if we want a couple par 4's.
Dropping a few different pin placements in the front 9 would be something to look into as well. I think some tweaking of the tee pad placements on the front nine should be looked into as well.
while i like the list for the final design i would like these preliminary to be creative and unique. the final choice will likely be combination of the layouts.