NOTES ON THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY'S SCARLET COURSE  
                               JNSE Revision
 
     Course Name:  The Ohio State University - Scarlet Course
     Location:     Columbus, Ohio
     Length/Par:   3,605/36 - 3,499/36  -  7,104/72
     Designer:     Alister Mackenzie and Perry Maxwell, 1939
     Difficulty:   Difficult - long & tight  
     Thanks to:    Mark Willett: for various rock formations and the bench  
                                 from his Scorpion... and a much greater 
                                 thanks to Mark for pushing the envelope so
                                 hard on state-of-the-art JNSE design
                                 techniques.  Each new course amazes me.
                   John Kunyik: for his new JNSE palette editor and his
                                program for importing backgrounds from .PCX
                                files.  These are the 2 greatest designers'
                                aids ever produced.
     JNUG Design:  Lee Ritze (VIALEE on Accolade and GEnie BBS's, TKNK81A on
                   Prodigy)
     Sources:      OSU Scarlet Scorecard
                   Four years of great memories from playing the course during
                    my years at OSU.

Ohio State University's Scarlet Course is generally not well known outside 
the worlds of Ohio and competitive college golf.  In those circles, however 
Scarlet is recognized as one of the most challenging and immaculate courses 
that a golfer can find.  It is a regular host to NCAA regional and national 
championships.  Alister Mackenzie, a designer of some reknown back in the 
20's and 30's, created Scarlet after tuning up his talents with designs like 
Cypress Point, Augusta National and University of Michigan Golf Course (it 
was during the depression and he must have needed the money).  Scarlet's 
length and strategic challenge has helped shape the games of such 
professionals as Tom Weiskopf, Ed Sneed, John Cook, Joey Sindelar, 
Chris Perry, Gary Nicklaus and Gary's father.  

Scarlet is set in the wooded, gently rolling countryside just north of Upper 
Arlington, a Columbus suburb.  Always testing and attractive, the course was 
always especially beautiful when I'd go back to school for Fall Quarter and 
the trees were a mass of red, yellow and golden hues.  I've wanted to do this 
course since I started messing around with JNUG's designer, and autumn is how 
I best remember it and have wanted to portray it.  In fact, it was my first 
course.  My Durango Pines from last winter was actually Scarlet... I switched 
to a mountain background and Scott's pines to make a fantasy course at the 
last minute because I didn't know how to create the lush wooded look that 
Scarlet holds in my memory.  It's been kind of fun for me to look back at 
Durango and compare my technique of one year ago with this effort.  

I must admit here that other than my own strong memories, this JNUG design 
has been done with less documentation than any course I've done since Bay of 
Rainbows.  Anyone who has played Scarlet in recent times may well catch me on 
some innacuracies, but I do feel I've captured the flavor of the course and 
it's most challenging shots.  I'd love to hear from anyone who knows Scarlet 
and has a better memory than me about any aspect of the course. 

You'll probably find that this OSU Scarlet rendition plays quite a bit harder
than my recent JNSE upgrade of Augusta.  The tee shots are considerably 
tougher, as the fairways are tight and sometimes require a fade or draw to 
reach a desirable landing area.  Scarlet offers much less margin for error 
as you stretch into the power zone to hit the drive over 250 yards.   

Comments, criticisms and suggestions for new course settings are always
welcome, through GEnie, Prodigy, Accolade BBS, Double Eagle or mail. 
My address is:

Lee Ritze
1207 Cannes Place
Carrollton, TX 75006
(214) 245-0937