                      NOTES ON ST. ANDREWS - OLD COURSE   

     Course Name:  St. Andrews - Old Course
     Location:     St. Andrews, Scotland
     Length/Par:   3,528/36 - 3,432/36  -  6,960/72
     Designer:     Nature, generations of rabbits and sheep, Allan Robertson,
                   Old Tom Morris
     Difficulty:   Moderate to Difficult (if you play it in dry conditions and                      high winds like it really is), otherwise Easy to Moderate 
     Thanks to:    Mark Willett, for his object artwork on the buildings of St.
                   Andrews, gorse and heather. 
     JNSE Design:  Lee Ritze (TKNK81A on Prodigy)
     Sources:      The World Atlas of Golf (ISBN 0-394-40814-4)
                   The World Atlas of Golf Courses (ISBN 0-792-45284-4)
                   Great Golf Courses of the World (ISBN 0-8317-4082-5)
                   Golf: Great Courses of the World (ISBN 0-89660-016-5)
                   Golf Digest, July 1990 Issue
                   The Golf Courses of the British Isles (ISBN 0-88-266-485-9)

  The Old Course at St. Andrews has been by far my favorite JNSE designing
experience.  This is in spite of the fact that JNSE's designing
capabilities do not allow the computer course to represent accurately
the challenges of St. Andrews bunkers, its never-flat lies, and the
bump-and-run skills needed to master the real course.  Any frustrations
I had in these areas were far more than compensated by the fun I've had
of studying and learning so many things that I'd never known before
about St. Andrews.  The stories behind such landmarks as Hell Bunker,
Miss Grainger's Bosoms, Sutherland Bunker, Road Hole, Hell's Kitchen,
The Principal's Nose and dozens more are great entertainment.  I hope
that reading this and playing my rendition of St. Andrews will give you
a taste for reading more about The Old Course; you won't regret it!

Now for some thoughts on playing St. Andrews.  The major trouble on most
holes is on the right (gorse, heather, heavy rough, the usual stuff),
specially when the wind comes from the golfer's left.  The pros with experience
at St. Andrews often play down the adjoining fairways to the left, just to
make sure they have a free swing at their second shots.  Many of the
greens are shared by two holes and have two pins.  Don't get confused
when you see two pins off in the distance as you approach these
greens...JNSE will aim you at the correct pin.  The real experience of St. Andrews comes through under dry conditons with 20 mph winds.  

I'd like to give a big thank you to Mark Willett for his help with St. Andrews.
I originally did St. Andrews for JNUG in August 1991.  When JNSE came out and
then Mark and I each got a few JNSE courses under our belts, Mark offered to do
the St. Andrews buildings for me when I got around to redoing St. Andrews.  
Nobody does building artwork better than Mark, so I took him up on his offer in
a New York minute.  I was working on St. Andrews in a leisurely fashion during October and had just mailed Mark some photographs of the buildings when Prodigy
expressed interest in using the course for November... with about ten days to 
go before November 1.  I asked Mark if he still wanted to do the buildings 
under a time deadline of a few days.  He should have turned me down, but I'm so
glad he didn't!  The four buildings in the object file are what make the course
real for me.  If you're reading this before you take your first tour of the 
course, the "walk" up the 17th and 18th holes are about as fun as JNSE gets.
Thanks again, Mark.  I owe you one!

Hope you have a great time at The Old Course!

Lee Ritze
Carrollton, Texas
November 1, 1992