2025 Farmers Insurance Open Rd 1 / Links 2003 - Play it like the Pro's

2025 Farmers Insurance Open Rd 1
Links 2003 - Play it like the Pro's
Jan 22 - 25 - 2025
Farmers Insurance Open
Torrey Pines (South Course) - La Jolla, CA
The pin placements for the first and second rounds were the same
Hole- pin #....1-14, 2-16, 3-6, 4-2, 5-0, 6-11, 7-4, 8-12, 9-17,
10-15, 11-6, 12-8, 13-10, 14-17, 15-3, 16-3, 17-12 and 18-6
Cond will be Breezy, F/C-M/C and played on
Torrey Pines South 2013
by Chuck Clark, Joe Otto and Matt Mcintosh
*** SCG - Wow, been playing mc/mc so long, didn't adjust well on the back 9. Front 9 ok (-3) but on the back, I folded faster than a origami champion (+6). I just couldn't leave the ball close to the hole. It just rolls and rolls lol soab... Good Luck out there guys ;-))
COURSE NOTES
Torrey Pines South is a real golf course which (along with its sister North Course) sits atop a 300-foot bluff above the Pacific Ocean in San Diego, California adjacent to Torrey Pines State Park.
CLIPNOTES
Description
Real, ocean course
Location
California
Conditions
Might play on F*/M* if you\'re looking for that real tournament experience.
Concept 9/10
There is no denying Torrey Pines\' place as one of the outstanding and thrilling West Coast ocean courses. The Links creation, though, has had a more curious evolution: starting as something bland, coarse and relatively unplayable, it has slowly been knocked into shape by a succession of designers. Now it features much better panoramic views, course objects and a proper feel for what it set out to be.
Appearance 8/10
There have been lots of improvements over the years, including decent high-res textures, a vastly better beach-side environment, and addition of 2D and 3D custom objects. But some low-res throwbacks haven\'t yet been weeded out, and some objects are more notable for their incongruity than their authenticity. The bunkers haven\'t really received their due as well, and remain poorly blended.
Playability 9/10
Unlike its brethren at Pebble Beach and Cypress Point, Torrey Pines relies much less on cliff-top drama than some superbly constructed holes which use the natural terrain in close alliance with perfect trap placement and talent for spotting golfers\' foibles. In that, it makes for a much more fascinating round: perhaps lower in drama, but certainly much improved in logic, planning and course strategy.
Challenge 8/10
Gone are the days when this was one of the toughest real-life courses available for the game. However, that largely was dependent on some horrific greening and unforgiving lies, so won\'t be particularly missed. It\'s not to say that the regenerated version is a pushover: the fairways and greens are guarded almost presciently, and the heavy rough is still a virtually-automatic penalty stroke.
Technical 8/10
Updating an average adaptation of an excellent real course must be a daunting task, and for the large part it has been executed very well. But there are still a few moments of excess in the wrong places, where more attention might have gone to the elimination of the final straight edges and poor blending.
Overall
An astute tactical course, finally starting to see the conversion it deserved in Links.
CLIPNOTES by Ben Bateson