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Links 2003 Northern Dunes 2 0 The Open

Northern Dunes 2.0 (The Open) by Mike Jones CLIPNOTES Description Fictional, links course Location The name and readme both hint at Northern England. Conditions M*/S* is as fast as you realistically need to be going. Concept 10/10 A brilliant coastal links at its inception, and still fairly impressive now, Northern Dunes probably holds its place in history as the first (and only?) APCD crossover course: that which was created by an amateur and adopted (presumably for some payment) by Microsoft for official releases. The course design still holds up incredibly well today, even if we've seen Mike Jones re-work the theme three or four times. The hazarding and use of rough is absolutely what a links course demands, and the whole package - even if it does become dated - should be regarded as a celebration of how courses can be created. Appearance 7/10 Well, it doesn't look all it did, that's for sure. The textures are terribly dated, and there are a fair few clones - not in the grasses but in the gorse and bush planting. But there's a lot still to love. The coastline has retained its authenticity, even over many subsequent imitators, and the colour set is awesome - a proper evocation of authentic grassy links. Playability 8/10 With the emphasis on outstanding course design, as you'd expect from any Mike Jones course, Northern Dunes has lost little of its panache. Certain holes - including nearly the whole stretch from the 9th through to the 14th - are gripping and intense: it's not nicknamed 'the Open' for nothing. Excellent natural sound effects usher you on the way, although I found the hole previews to be somewhat opaque and uninformative. Challenge 9/10 Regardless of the green speed, this course has retained all its challenging qualities extremely well, which is a sure indication of the skill of the designer. With the rough providing some horrendous lies, and the pot bunkers usually only offering a 100-yard escape at most - this mirrors the links golf that we are used to: a trait which can't be put to many fictional courses. Technical 7/10 It's definitely old-fashioned by the hyper-realistic standards of today's APCD, but there is still enough at Northern Dunes to put it years ahead of all its contemporaries. Ignore the hard-edged textures and somewhat awkward planting if you can, and admire the effortlessly-neat coastline and beautiful compilation that marked it out as something very special. Overall A must-own, despite its age, this is perhaps the course that did more to keep the Links genre alive than any other. CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson