
BURNT MILL RUN GOLF COURSE

                        Location:  Near Smithfield, Virginia
                        Type:      Original
                        Length:    Out: 3365 - In: 3332
                                   Total: 6697
                        Design:    (c) 1993, Gene Rodriguez III

                          Burnt Mill Run has been knocking around on my
                        hard drive since late winter. I've been trying (and
                        in some cases discarding) a number of new
                        techniques in the JNSE designer, and this course
                        was the test bed for a number of them. Finally, I
                        decided to get it finished and out in the world.

                          The land plot is taken from a topographical map
                        entitled "Bacon Castle" produced by the USGS.
                        The land currently consists of rolling farms tucked
                        in and among the meandering Lawnes Creek and
                        its surrounding marshes. At the start of this
                        project, I intended to take the contours directly
                        from this map. 

                          After several long tedious sessions of trying to
                        trace the contours onto a hole overhead and then
                        adding elevations to them, I realized that this
                        method would take entirely too long.
                        Consequently, the water and shoreline features are
                        accurate, but the elevations are only an
                        approximation of what actually exists on site.

                          The Burnt Mill Run property sits hard against a
                        turn in the James River called Burwell Bay, almost
                        equidistant between Norfolk and Williamsburg,
                        Virginia. The course is about nine miles due south
                        of the Surry Nuclear Power Facility, and you can
                        see the containment structures in the background
                        from many areas of the course... always helps to
                        know your neighbors. {g}

                          This course features a further refinement of the
                        video capture hardware/ software I used for
                        Furnace Springs. With FS, I used the system to
                        capture objects from television coverage of several
                        desert tournaments. 

                          This time, I used a VHS camcorder to capture
                        trees for the course. I was able to get some great
                        shots of specimen trees at a local cemetery, these
                        trees were perfectly formed and stood in relative
                        isolation, thus reducing the amount of "background
                        clutter" that needed to be cleaned out of the
                        screen shots.

HOLE NAMES

                          The holes at Burnt Mill Run are named after
                        place names that were found on the "Bacon
                        Castle" map, they all refer to real places or
                        features.

A NOTE ON ACCESS

                          You may notice that on some of the holes their
                        appears to be no way to walk or ride from one
                        part of the hole to another. The reason for this is
                        that, try as I might, I couldn't replicate a wooden
                        trestle/walkway.

                          In reality, this is how the marsh areas would be
                        crossed, but the current designer prevents this type
                        of structure from being accurately portrayed. I
                        decided that in the absence of such a structure, I'd
                        let the players imagination fill in the gaps...

FORE!

                          I hope you enjoy your round(s) at Burnt Mill
                        Run. I spent quite a bit of time on the look and
                        feel of this work. The course follows my tradition
                        of being "golfer friendly" while at the same time
                        providing a pleasant visual experience.

                          I hope you find this to be so,

                          June 28, 1993


                          Gene Rodriguez III
                          428 Benlea Circle
                          Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454
                          Member: Accolade BBS, 19th Hole BBS,
                                    National Videotex Network

OBJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:

                        (In order of appearance)

                        Cherry Tree  - Video Captured; Rosemont         
                                       Cemetery
                        Plum Tree    - Video Captured; front yard,       
                                       Waterway Surveys
                        Oak          - Video Captured; Rosemont Cemetery
                        Beech        - Video Captured; Rosemont Cemetery
                        Conifer      - Original, created from Video
                                       Captured foliage
                        Deciduous    - Original, created from Video
                                       Captured foliage
                        Marsh Grass  - Modified from Lee Ritze's St.
                                       Andrew's Dune Grass
                        Marsh Grass  -        "                "
                        Marsh Grass  -        "                "
                        Pine         - Lee Ritze, Seminole Wind
                        Ground Cover - Modified from Lee Ritze's St.
                                       Andrew's Dune Grass
                        Marker       - Original
                        Flag         - Original
                        Ground Cover - Mark Willett, Alhambra
                        Dead Fall    - Scott Chesney, Shattuck
                        Small Bush   - Unknown
                        Ground Cover - David Dykeman, Adirondack
                                       Preserve
                        Dead Tree    - David Dykeman, Adirondack
                                       Preserve
                        Pine         - Lee Ritze, Augusta


OTHER COURSES BY THE DESIGNER:

                        Bay Bridge Greens     - Fictional Golf by the      
                                                Chesapeake Bay

                        Royal St. Kitts       - A Caribbean island
                                                resort course

                        Nahabino Golf Course  - Located just outside     
                                                Moscow, Russia

                        Furnace Springs
                        Golf and Country Club - Fictional Desert Course,     
                                                Sonoran Desert, Arizona



Course design and all original material, (c) 1993, Gene Rodriguez III
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