COURSE NAME:  Crooked Stick Golf Club

LOCATION:     Carmel, Indiana

DESIGNER:     Pete Dye

JNUG DESIGNER: Scott Chesney

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:  Thanks to Robert Vasilik for the use of one     
                  of his trees from LaCosta.  I don't often       
                  borrow trees, but I like the gray one I took.

Crooked Stick is an interesting course, if only for the reason
that it was Pete Dye's first use of his famous railroad ties,
which have become his trademark.  Anyone who has tried to
effectively design those railroad ties for JNUG know the special
problems that go with getting them to look halfway decent when
actually laid out on the course.  I have tried again here.

Frankly, I chose to do Crooked Stick only because it was site of
the 1991 PGA and knew that Accolade's version would be pathetic,
which it was as always.  As I started, I was a bit bored, but as
time went on, I actually began to like the course.  It has some
wonderful par 3 holes and some very challenging par 4's.  I think
the par 5 holes are too easy and mark the downfall of Crooked
Stick.  Still, it is an interesting course.

I used this year's version of THE MAJORS SERIES, a hole by hole
description of the course, with pictures and drawings of the
topography and greens.  I have attempted to duplicate the greens
as described, so please don't think I just made them up in terms
of the undulations.

I added a caddy to my list of objects and made extensive use of a
new maple I designed.  I also modified a huge tree I designed
earlier for Pebble Beach and the Country Club.  Hopefully, you'll
like the course and find it a suitable challenge.  I intend to do
a revision after I tape the PGA tournament.  

I have begun work on Poppy Hills, the course that replaced
Cypress Point on the Bing Crosby tournament played at Pebble,
Spyglass, and Poppy Hills.  I wanted to finish that triad.  In
the future I have many projects awaiting, including doing Medinah
#3 using many source materials.  I will also do Shoal Creek and
perhaps Riviera.  Who knows.  Can't wait for the new version to
come out.

Scott Chesney
27 Edgerly-Garrison Road
Durham, New Hampshire  03824
(Moto on the Accolade BBS)April 20, 2005