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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