                      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
