Golf Course Designs by Mark Franzoia
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A Designer's Note:
With the advent of the APCD I have been thoroughly involved with designing 3-Dimensional Golf Courses.
Some have evolved as ideas from real life golf experiences and others from the history of the many great architects of their times.
This site will include Course Screenshots, personal photos and drawings that I have created over the years, mostly as a hobby.
Released Courses
Crouching Beast (Forest) Version 2 for Links 2003
Winner of the 2001 Digital Armchair Architect Contest
Sponsored by Microsoft and Golf Digest Magazine
Wyntoon Club for Links 2003
Wyntoon Club and Crouching Beast (Forest) Version 2 Completed


Wyntoon Club - A fictional California Coastal course featuring Forest, Barranca, Dunes, Cliffs and Ocean. This 7500 yard course - from the Black tees has four holes with alternate greens, some holes have multiple tees. The idea is to not let the playability of the course become boring. I would suggest that once this course has been downloaded and kept that you make a copy, open it in the APCD, go to plantings, tees and move the markers to other tee boxes that I've made available to see how differently some holes will play.

Questions, Suggestions, and Opinions
As some of you Linksters are aware the very first course I designed was Crouching Beast, which was voted by a panel of judges to be the winner of the 2001 Digital Armchair Architect Contest, submitted to Microsoft for the contest but with some flaws, was released and heavily panned by the Links community. As a result I took a lot of heat for some of the flaws, and also drew a lot of praise for the design, therefore if you would like to add an opinion, and/or critique and don't wish to draw attention by airing it in a forum please feel free to drop me an e-mail below.

Thank You and Swing Away

Mark Franzoia June 25 2002
Yogifranzoia@aol.com

Acknowledgements
Special Thanks go out to the following people whose contributions add to the looks of my courses: Lee 'Bomber" Harris, Brian Silvernail, Dark Horse Designs, Mike Jones, Ian Downs, Scott Lee and Lanny Nielsen, Sergio Garcia, and many nameless critics.

Crouching Beast (Forest Course) Version 2 for Links 2003
Crouching Beast(Forest)Version 2
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