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Cromford Golf course is as close as you can get to a real golf course without actually existing as a real golf course!
Let me explain…
Cromford Golf Course is what you get if you were to take lots of photos of an area, walk it many times, drink it in and understand it like the back of your had – say, if for example it was somewhere that you’d walked your dog for years and years. Now imagine, with this knowledge you were to look at that familiar terrain and design a golf course to fit the land in question. Where would you put the holes? How would you make the best use of the features in that particular area, the views, the river, the canal, the trees, the railway line, the historic buildings.
Cromford Golf course has not only been designed to fit beautifully into the Cromford Meadows area of Cromford (by the river and the canal) but it has actually been made – using that landscape and using Lidar data to get exact elevations and contours of the land – Cromford Golf course has been created in the virtual world.
So it does exist! Only on the simulator though.
Why not give it a go? It’s great to be playing a real place which you’re familiar with – you can even go for a walk (one of the best walks you can have in the area) to walk around the real life land and landscape you just played afterwards!
Crazy eh? Where else can you do that?