NOTES ON AUGUSTA NATIONAL GOLF CLUB 1993 JNSE REVISION Course Name: Augusta National Golf Club, annual home of The Masters Location: Augusta, Georgia Length/Par: 3,465/36 - 3,440/36 - 6,905/72 Designer: Alister Mackenzie, Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Difficulty: Moderate. Fairways are wide and rough almost nonexistant, but greens are tough. So what else is new about Augusta National? Thanks to: John Kunyik, for the tremendous JNSE utilities like the JNSE Designer's Toolkit. I can't imagine what it would have been like to fine tune the palette for Augusta without it. Mark Willett, for a few of the objects I borrowed from The Victorian. JNSE Design: Lee Ritze (TKNK81A on Prodigy) Sources: 1992 Masters Journal (C) 1992 by the Augusta National Golf Club The Majors Series - 1991, The Masters Edition by GGRW, Inc. The Masters Yardage Guide (C) by The Pocket Caddie The World Atlas of Golf Courses (ISBN 0-792-45284-4) The Yardage Card: OUT IN HOLE PAR YARDS HOLE PAR YARDS 1 4 400 10 4 485 2 5 555 11 4 455 3 4 360 12 3 155 4 3 205 13 5 465 5 4 435 14 4 405 6 3 180 15 5 500 7 4 360 16 3 170 8 5 535 17 4 400 9 4 435 18 4 405 ___ _____ ___ _____ 36 3,465 36 3,440 NOTES FOR FEBRUARY 1993 JNSE REVISION Anyone who has known me through Prodigy for two years probably knows of my passion for Augusta National, and very likely knows of my passion for constantly releasing revisions of my JNSE/JNUG models of Augusta National. I can almost hear Ted Maiden saying "There he goes again!" as I write this. My last revision of Augusta National came last April, about three weeks after I bought the new (then) Jack Nicklaus Signature Edition. I was entralled by the 256-color capability, the 240-object limit and the fact that April was Masters month. I dug into the JNSE Design program and cranked out the best update I knew how to with the new tools JNSE gave me. Since that time, a few things have happened that made me believe that going back again to the drawing table would make the course more enjoyable for me (and hopefully for you if you downloaded a previous version): - Friends I've met thru *P have sent me wonderful new information sources like the Masters Yardage Guide, The 1992 Masters Journal and The Majors Series magazine. The 3D pictures of hole layouts and greens give me the data to place tees, greens and traps more accurately... and to model the elevations of greens and fairways closer to reality. - I've come to understand the impact that JNSE has had on ball flight and ball roll better than I did at first. This has helped me come to grips with how holes like the 13th, 18th, 10th and 3rd holes need to be modeled to play fairly (if not always, then at least more often). - I've gained greater command of the Build Hills utilities (especially the Smooth function) and the Edit Plot functions to create a smoother and more polished look than I dreamed was possible back then. I owe thanks to Gene Rodriguez ,Mark Willett, Bill Permenter and others for opening my eyes to what could be done with a land plot. - John Kunyik's utilities... the greatest contributions ever made to the hobby of JNSE course designing. To the extent possible (possible by me, that is), all my revisions this time were in the interests of recreating the distances, elevations, tree placement and green shapes of the real thing. I thought I was going to be making the course a little easier, but during playtesting I found the course to be a little harder for me than my previous edition. I'll be interested to hear if you notice the course has gotten any harder or easier. I'd like to thank Joe Blankenship for the inspiration I took from his design of The Pinery. When I saw his innovative idea for turning the cartpath to brown and using it as dirt paths, it hit me that this was the way for me to recreate the areas of pine needle-covered ground in the more densely wooded areas of Augusta National. The ball may bounce a little crazy on you if you bust a drive into the woods, but hopefully you'll find the playability impact minimal and the improved look worth the compromise. NOTES FROM MY ORIGINAL RELEASE OF AUGUSTA NATIONAL FOR JNUG IN FALL 1991 Augusta National was the course I wanted to design last winter when I first got JNUG. After struggling for several hours with the "Build Hills" functions of the Designer, I decided I wasn't up to it and went on to less ambitious fare. A couple months later I discovered the Accolade BBS and Scott Chesney's Augusta. It has always been one of my favorites. I was lucky enough as a teenager to be able to attend The Masters in 1969 and 1971. Besides the beauty of the flowering trees and bushes in April, the most memorable aspect of Augusta National is THE HILLS. I've never lost the desire to do a version of the course that reflects my memory of the elevation changes that impact nearly every hole at Augusta National. And after 10 or more courses I finally feel I'm enough in command of the "Build Hills" functions to create the looks I like. SUMMARY All in all, I hope I've created a course that recreates the look and challenge of playing Augusta, and that you'll enjoy coming back again to play from time to time. It's been great fun for me to make (and re-make, and re-make, and ...). And next time Ned Martin gets around to the next version of JNSE and gives us twice the objects space, maybe I'll finally have enough space to get Jones Cabin, the clubhouse and some of those wonderful Augusta National sandwich stands onto this course. Lee Ritze 1207 Cannes Place Carrollton, TX 75006 (214) 245-0937