Say one thing for golf simulation firms, their websites are a wonderful means of getting a feel for holes you might never set foot upon in your life.No arty-farty angles here: these guys have product to sell, so the photography is strictly of the you-are-there variety.
Wandering through High Definition Golf's selection of courses, for example, I defy you not to feel the wind in your hair at Kiawah Island or the salt on your lips at Caso de Campo. It also includes the lowest angle from which I've ever seen Stanley Thompson's Devil's Cauldron hole at Banff Springs photographed. Dare I say that it looks markedly less scary than usual...?
Poor relation has to be Wooden Sticks, which has tried to reproduce 18 famous holes from elsewhere and on the evidence of those offered here, succeeds only in making us yearn for the originals. I persist in my exasperation with architects who believe lightning can strike twice in this way: life really is far too short.
Look at the stab at Augusta's 12th, for example. You know how you feel when a rapper bastardises your favourite '70s song...?
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