               Hello and thank you for downloading Hazeltine.

Course: Hazeltine National G.C. Chaska, Minn.
 
Designer: Robert Trent Jones, 1960
 
Host to : U.S. Open 1970  Winner: Tony Jacklin,  2nd Dave Hill
          Womens Open 1977
          Senior Open 1983
          U.S. Open 1991  Winner: Payne Stewart, 2nd Scott Simpson 

JNUG Design: John Dillon, June 18th - June 22nd

Hours spent at the Designer:  Countless.  My girlfriend Jamie could 
answer that better than I. She seemed to keep track of them all.

  Hello again and welcome to Hazetine.  The home of the 1991 U.S. Open 
with its high drama play off round between Payne Stewart and Scott 
Simpson.  Here are some brief notes on its history. 

  Hazeltine came into being in 1960 and was finished in 1962 at the 
hands of Robert Trent Jones and Totton Peavy Heffelfinger. ( Yes that 
is a real name.)  The original name of the course was The Executive 
Golf Club of Minnesota and was later renamed Hazeltine after the lake 
that borders both the 10th and the now famous 16th hole.  Remarkable 
for its time, the founders decreed that one of the clubs first policies  
would be to have an totally open membership, with no restrictions on 
race are religion.  Remarkable considering we are talking of the early 
60s when our country was torn by devastating race riots.  This was the 
idea of Totton himself for which he should be applauded. 

  From day one the course was actually built and conceived to hold one 
of the next U.S. Open Tournaments in the 60s.  The late Mr. 
Heffelfinger was the president of the U.S.G.A. from 1952 to 1953 and 
used some of his influence to get his wish in 1970.  This honor did not 
come without its price.  The course was deemed to young and immature 
for such a match.  Heavy rains caused serious turf problems for the 
match and high winds, up to 40mph, sent first round scores into the 
80s.  The "Golden Bear" himself scored an 81 and marked the only time 
he failed to break 80 in the 29 U.S. Opens he played in as a pro.  The 
course itself took a terrible drumming in the form of harsh criticism  
from some of its major players.  Dave Hill, the runner up, summed it up 
by saying "Just because you cut the grass and put up flags doesn't mean 
you have a golf course....If I had to play here every day, I'd find 
another game....What it lacks is 80 acres and a few cows...They ruined 
a good farm by building this golf course on it."  I'd say that is 
harsh. Even Jack Nicklaus bashed its high number of blind shots.  "The 
only target on the tee at 18," he claimed "Was the chimney on Tot 
Heffelfinger's House."

  Well Tony Jacklin, a young 25 year old Briton with excellent putting, 
won the U.S. Open Cup that year by 7 strokes over Dave Hill. That was 
the largest margin of victory since 1921.  Also, no one has won by more 
than 3 strokes since then.  Tony, citing the  wind and wet turf, well, 
made him feel, "right at home."  Well the course has matured in the 
last 21 years as well as gone through some major revisions for the 1991 
U.S. Open.  Some holes were changed entirely.  Most notably the 17th 
hole and 16th which seemed to gain national fame during the recent 
telecast.  The course almost demands to be played conservatively.  At 
7,149 yards for the Open, it is a bit long.  There are really few, if 
any holes where you can, "go for broke and go for it!"  As many of the 
best pros found out this year.  Maybe the 3rd and the 7th, they have 
tempted me more times than I would care to say. 
 
     A Few Words On The Course Design and The Designer Itself. 

  As for myself, I am hooked on JNUG & Course Designer.  And since you 
took the time to down load this course, for which I again thank you, 
you are probably hooked too. Don't feel bad.  It keeps us off the 
streets and closer to our girlfriends and wives.  Who, if they do not 
share the same fanatical interest in golf, have deemed themselves to be 
golf widows till the end of time.  Not only did we get a nice golf game 
here but a designer where we can create our own courses and challenge 
Jack himself to a round.  It really never ceases to amaze me how we can 
create  course and put ourselves at any spot in the course and have a 
look around.  I must say I had no idea Accolade was about to release 
this course on disk when I started this long, 60+ hour endeavor.  But 
even if i did, I was so captivated by this years Open, I know I would 
have taken a crack at it any way.

  The main bulk of input came from over 18+ hours of VCR tape which I 
recorded during this years Open.  I then logged, using the tape 
counter, each and every view of each hole from start to finish. I am 
really surprised the pause button didn't wear out.  I then took each 
hole one by one and tried to do my best to recreate the same views on 
my monitor as I saw on the TV screen from the real course. I must saw I 
did take some, but limited, artistic license on some of the holes by 
adding a few extra trees here and there for purely esthetic reasons.  
But what I really strived for was, "the lay of the land," or in this 
case, "the lay of the course."  I wanted the land elevations on each 
hole to be as close as possible to the real thing for the most accurate 
play on the ball. 

  Since in the game you can not look from one hole across to another, 
even if they are side by side, I took further artistic license. I 
created some imaginary hills around the outskirts of some of the holes 
to get rid of that horrid flat avocado waste land look.  After all was 
said and done I was happy with the results.  But you, the player will 
be the final judge of that.  My favorite holes are the 6th the 10th and 
the 16th.  This course still has some blind shots, but so does the real 
course.  The greens, for the most part, are rather large and oddly 
shaped and the fairways are a bit narrow from time to time but all the 
better to challenge your skill.  Since the greens are so large I did 
leave most of them flat.  After playing a few rounds you may agree it 
was a good choice. 

  Since the Open was played with windy and dry as well as windy and wet 
conditions I suggest you play it the same way for the most accurate 
scoring.  I will more than likely post a slight revision of this course 
within a month or so to include some more detail.  Right now I felt I 
wanted all of you to play it while the Open was still fresh in our 
minds. Other than that I have no real hints to give you but if you come 
up with some please let me know. For now, ENJOY! 

I would like to gratefully thank the following:

"Scott Chesney", A.K.A. Motto: for his insight on course design well 
before the start of this Hazeltine course and for use of some of his
objects and courses that I have enjoyed.

"Jay Johnson", A.K.A. Jaybird: for his objects and courses.

"Golfnut": For some of his objects and course designs.
 
"A.B.C. Sports": For such excellent camera work at the Open.  The 
copter "fly bys" were a tremendous help. If you watched the Bush 
Classic on C.B.S. the following weekend you know what I mean. 

"Golf Digest": magazine for their coverage before the Open.

"Jamie": My true love for not booting me out of the house since 
purchasing JNUG.

"Johnny Walker" for keeping me company late into the night.

  If you have any comments or insight please feel free to get in touch.
And, thank you  again.
 
John M. Dillon, A.K.A. Baggy
12419 S. Shasta Ct.
Phoenix, Az. 85044.

P.S. Besides the courses of the names mentioned above I also recommend 
you down load a file called "GolfStat.Exe".  It is an excellent file 
that will keep an "on going" record of your scores for each of your 
courses as well as the number of eagle, birdies and bogies for each 
hole on the course for later viewing. Just remember to paly in "Tourn"
mode. 

                         7/03/93
     Greetings from Bill Pepperman A.K.A. "BoomBoom"---

    I Had always wanted to play Hazeltine National on the JNSE but could not
find it on any bulletin boards. After reviewing all the courses for JNUG at
the Accolade BBs,I noticed Hazeltine by John Dillon. I decided to download it
and see if I could update it for  use on JNSE. I believe it came out fine.

    Needless to say, John did all the leg-work by taping the U.S. Open in 1991
His rendition of the "lay of the land" brings back memories of the tourney.
I changed very little of the hills other than smoothing out some traps. I had
to put the undulations on all the greens and I think they turned out OK. After
playing a couple of rounds with computer pro Jim Hallet, I can tell you that
you"ll need your putter working.

    As far as the background goes, I imported it from Scott Chesney's "The 
Country Club."  Then I had to import some differnt trees to go with the new
background. I wish I had the skill and patience needed to draw these objects.

    Finally, I placed a cart path running thru the whole course. I sure hope 
it really does go from hole to hole on the real thing.

    Well, that about does it from here. This is the first course I have ever 
uploaded. Again I would like to thank John for doing what I could never have 
accomplished all by myself. I am looking forward to taping some courses at
Myrtle Beach this winter and trying to do them. Until then, good-luck at
"Hazeltine National G.C."

    Bill Pepperman
    162 Juniper Road
    Etters, Pa. 17319
    Prodigy(GKRG38A)

P.S. I am looking forward to playing this course with windy and dry 
conditions. It will be tough to par! Also does anybody know of a good rendition
of Torrey Pines?
