Hi folks,
I had the good fortune to play Harbour Town a couple of times in early February as part of a turning 60 vacation celebration at Hilton Head. The first round I played with a couple of juniors who were playing that weekend in a tournament where the second and final round was going to be at Harbour Town. The old guy in the group did manage to have closest to the pin on a couple of par 3's (though they might have been hitting from about 50 yards further, but we were probably using the same iron!).
Anyway, some observations about the Links version relative to IRL.
1. My joke about the IRL Harbour Town trees is that unlike elsewhere (the claim of course being trees are 90% air), is that the Harbour Town trees are about 90% tree. So that's pretty much like the Links version.
2. Harbour Town is tight enough IRL without some even artificially tighter out of bounds that exists in the Links version. That's unfortunate.
3. The 15th green must have rebuilt since the Links version came out. They are very different in terms of the sloping.
I still enjoy the LInks version very much.
Ronnie