PGA 2K21 - TQCL Walmer & Kingsdown L

Designer: BaconJunkie1

I’m going to dedicate this one to the great peeps that make TGC 2019, PGA Tour 2k21 & LiDAR video how to videos. You gave of your time to teach those of us that are willing to watch and learn and It’s you all that make these courses doable, well you and the man upstairs … Thank you all!!!

Tournament Quality Courses is proud to present TQCL Walmer & Kingsdown L (Lengthened version). I’ve stretched the course from its normal distance of 6,429 to 6,918 yards and as I always do, the courses back tees (White) are there if the purist wants to use them. The course is really hilly and plays more like a 7,300ish yard course. The greens came out really flat and lifeless (I’ve seen reviews where they mentioned flat greens too or maybe the LiDAR was off some), I’ve researched some of Braid designs and tried to replicate them here and a few holes have my spin on them and trust me, they are not flat and boring anymore. On the fairway slopes, aim high, you might even want to land in the rough and let the ball come back to the fairway. I’ve added a few aiming poles to help with the blind shots … TQCL Walmer & Kingsdown L, It’s a 6,900 yarder with teeth!

3 Tees / 4 Pins
Red: 6,226 Yards
White: 6,429 Yards
Black: 6,918 Yards
Greens: Firm and 174’ (8.0)
Winds: S/W and High (12-21 mph is the average there and it’s windy on the English Channel)

Course History:
The course was designed by the great Scottish designer James Braid (well over 100 courses) and its very unique design is something to experience as it’s on a ridge’s slopes on the edge of The White Cliffs of Dover overlooking the English Channel. The course was officially opened on Saturday April 17, 1909, with a match between two of the world's best-known players of their era, course designer James Braid and Harry Vardon - both Open Championship winners - with Braid the winner, 3 and 2.

But the natural beauty of the course was marred considerably during World War Two, with all three military services utilizing the clubhouse and land – the course being covered in barbed wire and gun emplacements and with a barrage balloon looming overhead as the Battle of Britain took place in the skies above.

With the course looking beyond salvation at the end of the War it was only the determination, dedication and generosity of Club Chairman Theodore Instone and Vice Chairman Harry Weedon that ensured the club exists today. The pair purchased the course from its owners and tasked the greenkeepers with repairing the devastating war damage. In December 1948 the two benefactors registered the club as a member’s club and handed ownership to the members, to be run as a club for the community.