Big Horn Golf Club Big Horn, California Home to THE SKINS GAME, since 1992 Architect: Arthur Hills Tees 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 OUT ----------------------------------------------------- Par 5 4 5 3 4 4 4 3 4 36 ===================================================== Championship 504 365 506 184 290 514 389 205 461 3418 Pro 485 344 490 168 264 496 370 162 416 3195 Mens' 472 320 482 141 242 445 346 122 405 2975 Ladies' 445 200 392 96 186 330 282 90 328 2349 Tees 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 IN TOT ----------------------------------------------------------- Par 4 3 5 4 4 5 4 3 4 36 72 =========================================================== Championship 429 200 525 397 397 509 429 165 429 3480 6898 Pro 410 170 504 384 381 493 400 146 410 3298 6493 Mens' 344 154 472 378 368 461 368 144 384 3073 6048 Ladies' 301 104 424 298 312 416 341 130 365 2691 5040 Nestled in the foothills of the Santa Rosa Mountains, this course is the site of The Skins Game for the PGA Tour. Payne Stewart won in 1992 and repeated again last year as The Skins Game champion. The skins format can prove to be quite exciting. Set the first six holes to $20,000 each, the next six for $30,000 each and the last six for $40,000 each. Now you can take on Payne Stewart and the rest of the foursome and see if you can win some skins from them. COURSE ====== For the course layout I used The 1993 Viewers Guide to Professional Golf by Whitney McClelland and his crew of artists. I also used video tape of the coverage provided by ABC-TV. The video tape also helped me to make the changes that were made to holes nine and thirteen. I tried to make the greens fair and yet challenging. I made the O.B. play as heavy rough, but used this sparingly since the real hazard in the desert is the terrain and sand. With regards to the sand, most shots that miss the fairway or rough would generally be out of bounds or unplayable. It is possible in this JNSE version to take a few extra clubs and go for the green. Be careful though, most of the lies are steep and make it a challenge to get your Sand Save. I would like to thank John Kunyik for the invaluable help that his JNSE Designer Toolbox and Palette Editor provided. To be able to change the color schemes of the basic JNSE palette really makes it exciting to work on new objects and backgrounds. I was able to use it best to influence a change in the color of the sand and the background in general, as well as some of the objects that I borrowed. OBJECTS ======= I have downloaded many courses from the JNSE bulletin board at Accolade and have borrowed objects from people who have borrowed objects from others. I am not sure who is responsible for creating them, but I'm appreciative of all these gifted artists. I have edited most of these to fit the general look of the course and to reduce most of the originals' sizes which I feel are too large, in most cases. Most of my designs are rather 2-dimensional but I am practicing and perfecting my designs. The two "Bushes", "Clubhouse" and "Rockpile" are mine. I also edited a Deer from a JNUG ClipArt package to provide a Ram who is a Big Horn native. I did include one of the "Grass" objects from Revery's version of Royal St. George's as a tribute. This is probably my favorite JNSE design that I have downloaded and played. Subtleties of this design reveal themselves the more rounds that I play. Everything about this design is TOP-RATE! I'm looking forward to seeing a Turnberry design for this years British Open. BACKGROUND ========== I borrowed the background from the fantastic version of the Palmer Course at PGA WEST that was created by Dan Raftery. I changed most of the mountain colors with the palette editor and also took some liberties by grafting a few extra mountains and clouds into the original background. This is a premier example of a desert course and I tried to incorporate a lot of what I've learned from playing this and several other of Dan's courses. His use of height with the natural flow that is present on these holes creates a high standard to shoot for. -----:----- This is my first JNSE design that I feel is worthy of presenting here. With time, experience and practice I should be able to improve my design, object and backgrounds. I generally download and play PGA Tour courses exclusively. Be on the lookout for En-Joie Country Club, home of the B.C. Open. I hope to have this course completed after some more "on-site" research. Chip Hughes Elmira, New York February 21, 1994