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COURSE NAME :  Forest Oaks Country Club

LOCATION    :  Approximately 10 miles southeast of Greensboro, NC

ARCHITECT   :  Ellis Maples

JNSE DESIGN :  Roger Johnson

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                          ABOUT  THE  COURSE
 
 Welcome to Forest Oaks Country Club, site of the annual Greater Greensboro
Open. Designed by Ellis Maples and opened for play in 1965, Forest Oaks is 
considered one of the most demanding courses on the PGA Tour. The course has
seen some extensive renovations in the past few years. Two years ago(1991),  
the 16th and 17th greens were redesigned and enlarged. Since last year's 
tournament, with the help of Fuzzy Zoeller, the 18th hole has undergone major
renovations, including completely altering the green and its surrounding area.
The green's surface has been lowered 2 1/2 feet, which improves sightlines for
spectators and provides the players with a better target for their long iron
approach shots. Also, mounds have been added around the green to greater
enhance spectators' views of what usually boils down to an exciting GGO finish! 
 
                                     ... From the 1992 GGO Tournament Program

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                          FROM  THE  DESIGNER

 I hope you enjoy playing Forest Oaks as much as I did designing it. After 
several years of GGO visits, I'm happy to have a JNSE version of the course.
I've given much attention to the course elevations and green slopes in hopes
of giving you the best representation of Forest Oaks that I can. I must say 
that I am pretty well pleased with the outcome. 
 There are a few spots around the course that I feel I must mention for those
of you who are not familiar with Forest Oaks. The first that comes to mind is
the landing area of the tee shot at #13. I spent about an hour on Saturday of
the tournament near that landing area and watched the reactions of the tee 
shots as they landed on the sidehill, downhill slope. The tee shot, to say the 
least, very much determines your destiny on this hole. I watched several 
players layup short of the slope, and also several who played the shot 
perfectly as their ball caught the slope and made its way down short of the 
water for a perfect attempt at reaching the par 5 in two with a long iron. 
I also watched the unfortunate one's who carried their ball a bit to far into 
the slope giving it little chance of stopping before finding the water at the
bottom of the hill. I spent about 2 hours one night trying to perfect that 
downhill slope and after about 100 tee shots in all types of conditions, I'm
pleased with it. So one word of caution, if the wind is at your back on the       
13th tee, be cautious!
 Another spot I thought I would mention is the back right pin placement on
#8. Also, while spending time at the green, I noticed that the only players
whose tee shots threatened the pin were the one's that flirted dangerously
with the right bunker. This is due totally to the right to left slope of the
green.
  Also, spending two days at the tournament this year,I don't remember a putt 
being made over 20 feet. The greens had the pros chewing on their putter grips.
Speed is a crucial element of putting well at Forest Oaks and I have done my 
best to bring you the green elevations as I noted while there. 
 The background and objects are all borrowed with the exceptions of the slight
altering I did to the green house, the red azalea and the dogwood. Spring is 
in full bloom at Forest Oaks during tournament time and hopefully I have done
a good job at displaying that. I must say, if I was a great designer of
backgrounds and objects, I couldn't come up with any that better fits the look
around Forest Oaks than the one's I've chosen to use. So have fun while in 
North Carolina and Davis Love's course record of 62 during his win in 1992 is
there for the taking.

Sincerely,

Roger Johnson
Prodigy ID - SNHJ01A
NVN ID     - RJOHNSON6