THE GOVERNORS CLUB

 COURSE NAME : The Governors Club
 ARCHITECT   : Jack Nicklaus
 JNSE DESIGN : Roger Johnson
 YEAR OPENED : 1988
 LOCATION    : 3 miles southwest of Chapel Hill, N.C. , 25 miles west 
               of Raleigh.
 
 
                         ABOUT THE COURSE
         
   Welcome to The Governors Club Golf Course, designed by the world's
  foremost name in golf, Jack Nicklaus. In his typical style, Nicklaus
  created this championship golf course through the enhancement of its 
  natural surroundings. The course winds its way around the side of a
  mountain, through lakes and streams, and underneath towering hardwood
  trees.
   With breathtaking views of 600-foot elevations, Governors Club will 
  remind you of a mountain golf course. The course abounds in natural
  scenic beauty, with spectacular stone walls, rocky creeks and trees
  of oak and hickory.
   The front nine is flatter with more of a feel of the North Carolina
  Sandhills region. But the back nine runs up Edwards Mountain, often
  playing from one high point to another, over low-lying fairways; or
  from a high to a low and back to a high area.
   Governors Club Golf Course has been lazer measured at 7,085 yards,
  and par is 72. The average size of the generous greens is 6,000 square
  feet.
   Trouble spots include a total of 35 sand bunkers. Among the course's
  many rock hazards are native boulder formations that remain in turf
  areas. Some greens are actually designed around these rocks.
  
                     MORE ABOUT THE COURSE
 
   This is my first JNSE design of a real course. References for recreating 
  it included the course yardage book and videotape I shot walking the course.
  I decided to do the course in fall colors because of the scenic beauty I 
  discovered when I visited the course last autumn for a benefit tournament
  by the Senior PGA players and celebrities. Also there are only a few JNSE
  courses available at this time with fall colors.
  
                           CREDITS
                           
    Because I don't consider myself an artist and there are many JNSE 
  designers that have given us such fine backgrounds and objects to work
  with, I borrowed most of the objects and background from other courses.
  I would like to thank Kerry Leibowitz and Tom Estrella for the use of 
  their Inverness Club background that I modified to portray Edwards Mountain.
  The majority of trees are also from Inverness except for the tall, slender
  tree that I borrowed from Gene Rodriguez's Bay Bridge Greens and modified 
  into fall colors. Thanks also to Brian Silvernail for the small rocks I 
  used on a couple of holes from his course Rolling Evergreen. The larger 
  rocks are from Sherwood that are slightly reshaped to better fit the course.
  Thanks also go out to Mark Willett for a couple objects and also for 
  tutoring me on creating a cleaner overhead view of the course. Thanks, Mark.
     
    I hope you enjoy The Governors Club. Any comments are welcome.
    
 Roger Johnson
 Prodigy SNHJ01A