We know there are a vast amount of excellent Links courses available by some top designers which can be converted for PP. The questions is how will permission from these designers be handled.
A lot of them have moved on and are not involved in virtual golf anymore, will a real effort to get in touch to obtain permission to use their course file be okay? One should also give credit to the designer especially for fictional courses.
I believe the height map date can be extracted from a locked course file but you won't be able to open it in APCD to get the overhead. I suppose an in game screenshot from the top view will serve the same purpose but maybe not so accurate. You might have to stick a couple of screenshots together.
Adriaan