Notes on "DH_CPS.Zip" -- October 12, 1992

Course Name	: Deane Hill Chip, Putt and Sand
Location	: Set adjacent to the 11th at Deane Hill GC
Length/Par	: 475 yards / 19-19-38
JNSE Design	: Bill Permenter (Original design)
Difficulty	: Rating 39.3

Inspiration	: The putting course at Nicklaus' Desert 
		  Highlands GC -- plus I needed a way
		  to practice my bunker play.

Comments about the course:

Not much to say here -- only that I think the course is very
difficult, and if you can break par here you have really done
something.  My favorite holes are the 4th, 11th, 15th, & the 17th.

I love the way that JNSE handles bunker play.  The extra roll
that the sand wedge imparts may not be true to life, but it 
does make bunker play very challenging.  I hope the course
helps improve your bunker play.


Other comments:

1) When going backwards (such as the 10th) remember the wind
   guage is off -- it's exactly backwards.
2) My new course "Beggars' Island" will also use the concept
   of "primary hole and secondary holes running backward".
3) Beside the "wind problem" on backward holes, the "background"
   can be a problem too (easily fixed though).


Comments on Golf Programs as a whole:

Ratings (100 perfect score - my humble opinion)

	1) JNSE				95
	2) JNUG				85
	3) Links 386 PRO		83
	4) Microsoft Golf		81
	5) Links			80
	6) PGA Tour			80
	7) Greens			75

** JNSE - I'm loving it more and more since I got my 486.
	  Only things lacking are:
		1) New swing animations
		2) Need new clip art disk w/ good "digitized trees"!
		3) I wish "wind" would react OK in any direction.
	  
	  Ball flight height is not any problem to me anymore 
	  (I'm use to it), and tournament play mode and computer
	  golfers are very good -- my early criticisms were not
	  valid.

** JNUG - An all-time favorite.  When I had both it and the original
	  Links, I spent about 70% my time with JNUG and only 30%
	  with Links.

** Links 386 PRO - Looks great, loaded with features, great great
          courses, more great courses to come -- BUT IS NOT 
	  CHALLENGING FOR THE SERIOUS PLAYER!!!  How anybody can
	  enjoy shooting in the 50s round after round I will
	  never know!  I spend very little time now with the
	  program, but still feel there is always hope!

	  "Life is funny -- I had JNSE on my 386/20 and did not
          like it that much, I bought a 486 w/ SVGA just to play
	  Links 386 PRO -- AND THEN FELL IN LOVE WITH JNSE" !!!

** Microsoft Golf - I'm a strange guy, I trashed my MAC for DOS
	  about 3 years ago, and I detest Windows.  If one has
	  PCTools, XTree Gold, or Norton, old man DOS is very
	  easy and very fast.  Windows is the biggest "crock"
	  around -- it is for the "idiots of today" -- people
	  totally incapable of thought.  I guess that why they
	  adapted LINKS to it -- it also requires no thought!!

** LINKS - Looked great in its day -- but again played lousy.

** PGA Tour - If JNSE did not exist, and I wanted to play
	      tournament play this is the program I would use.
	      I love the fly-bys and the 7 courses are excellent
	      choices.  Program is loaded with unique features 
	      -- if it had "elevations" it might have been a 
	      great program.

** Greens - Scott, you've been "smelling" too many dirty diapers!

	
I hope you enjoy the course.  Thanks.

Bill Permenter
(713) 353-6227
Prodigy - GSTM14E

Next - I'm presently working on another original design --
       "Beggars' Island" set in the South Pacific.
	
       I still may do "Ballybunion" -- but I'm enjoying designing
       my own courses.  Also, I still may convert more of my old
       courses.