COUNTRY CLUB AT THE BILTMORE

 
 Course Name :  Country Club at the Biltmore
 JNSE Design :  Roger Johnson
 Location    :  The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina near 
                Asheville.
                
                
                     ABOUT THE BILTMORE ESTATE
                      
   The Biltmore House and Gardens located near Asheville, N.C. is a popular
vacation attraction by the many tourists that tour the North Carolina 
mountains each year. The elegant estate was the home of billionare George
Vanderbilt during the late 1800's and early 1900's. The mansion, completed 
in 1895, took five years to build. The Estate once included 145,000 acres 
and presently covers 12,000 acres, 35 of which are formal gardens. The mansion,
which is the largest private dwelling ever built in the New World contains 250
rooms. 

                         ABOUT THE COURSE
                
   This fantasy course was inspired by Lee Ritze's rendition of Augusta
National for JNSE. Most of the objects and the background are from Lee's
course. C.C. at the Biltmore plays similarly to Augusta with its wide rolling
fairways and tough undulating greens. Not unlike Augusta National, length is
also a major aspect of the course. Although the course plays to a length of
7340 yards, I feel with the wider fairways and large greens that it is a 
fair test of golf.

                      MORE ABOUT THE COURSE
            
   This course is a conversion of a JNUG course I designed. The JNUG version
was never released mainly for the reason that JNSE hit the stores a few days
after it was completed. Like most, I left JNUG in the dust when the new
simulation arrived. I feel this was my best design for JNUG, so I was anxious
to see how it converted. Some of the slopes in the fairway had to be smoothed
and with the greater variety in colors in the palette I couldn't let the 
background go unchanged. Also the scoreboard was drawn from a picture I found
in the Masters Tournament program.

                            
                             CREDITS
   
   I would like to thank Lee Ritze for the use of objects from Augusta
National. Also for the background, that I modified to include the Biltmore
Mansion. Thanks Lee.
   I hope all who play C.C. at the Biltmore will find it an enjoyable and
challenging round of golf. Any and all comments are welcome.

Roger Johnson
Prodigy SNHJ01A