HO Golf Course

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I worked at a golf course for 2 1/2 years and from the club house you could only really see the tee boxes for hole 1 and hole 9 and about the first 200 yards of each fairway. Trees and terrain typically block and limit the views for many golf courses to only a couple hundred yards either way.

I have no plans to put in a golf course on my layout, but if I were going to I would probably design the scenic element with portions of one or two fairways only, and then use the background/backdrop to paint in some other holes simulated using a forced perspective for distance. Adding some trees and hills to the background would add the the forced perspective as well. I imagine a plan where I would detail the green and a portion of the fairway for one hole with a couple players around the hole, and then the tee box and a portion of the fairway for another hole with another flight of players teeing off. Then the backdrop/background would be painted in with the remainder of those holes and maybe a few other holes painted in, thus giving the impression that there is an 18 hole golf course that extends into the distance.

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NS runs through FRONT ROYAL VA Golf course … I played a couple of rounds there …From the tee box the main line is about 400 yards to the right …

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An HO golf course is the perfect place for these folks:

Found here and here

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Columbia Golf coarse in Minneapolis has the Soo line yards and main line scattered all though it. It crosses the track and parralels it on a couple of holes.

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If someone were to model one of those, “$$ homes all twisted up with a golf course,” developments in HO, it would probably be about the size of my entire layout space (including aisleways.) I prefer to model other things - and there weren’t any golf facilities in my prototype territory.

(Better not let my wife see this. She, my son and my daughter are championship-level golfers who take the game as seriously as I take model railroading!)

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)