The Woodlands is the first JNUG course submitted by the
team of Yatz and Longball, if that sounds like a comedy
team it's more like a law firm negotiating about how to
build a golf course.

The Longball half of the team is writing the first half
of this file, let me introduce myself.

Lonnie Iris
609 Wildrose Lane
Appleton, WI 54915
Phone (414) 734-1425

Or of course Longball on the Acolade Board

Yatz has already submitted some solo work to the board
you may have downloaded, namely Hulman.

I think we work better as a team than either of us do 
solo because we really tear each others work apart and
because quite frankly I don't have the patience for all
the nitpicking detail work that he is so good at.

We have obviously got some work to do yet as computer
artists to reach the caliber of Moto and Jaybird. I have
really been impressed with some of your work guys.

I do think we build some interesting courses both from the
fantasy variety to representations of the real courses. We
have been designing in Mean 18 for several years and gained
our basic knowledge but it had it's limitations. What a 
pleasure when JNUG came out.

I have an Amiga while Yatz has an IBM, we can't even agree
on computers. We translate the courses between the two. 
By the way if anyone is having trouble translating courses
between the two formats call we do it all the time but
there are a few tricks to it. Enough chatter.

The TPC at Woodlands hosts the Houston Open. Designed by
Bruce Devlin and Bob Von Hagge this par 72 layout offers 
many challenges fron the Texas wind to water on all but
five holes. It was carved out of a forest of oaks and pines
and laden with traps.

We worked very hard on sand trap design on this one
because it was one of the major features which showed
up when the pros were playing it on the tube. They are
large, most of the time they are not hidden adding to
the playing experience and beauty of the course.

The tall southern style pines will actually let you
play some shots from deep in the woods if you can punch
a two iron below where the branches start.

The greens are probably too large and most of our newest 
design projects have smaller ones.  You will welcome the
few flat putts after cursing some of the pin placements
which range from tricky to downright nasty. Most of the 
newer TPC designs have emphasized tougher tour putting.

We believe that because the JNUG game itself allows you
such accurate shot making you might never enjoy the real
challenge most of these courses pose. I don't believe a
course should be made easy where you can really enjoy the
rewards of good shot making. One of my proudest achievements
was a 232 yd double eagle here on number 1. However there 
have been many a times I would have settled for bogey.
I hope you enjoy the course.

I will turn the file over to Yatz now so he can disagree
with everything I have said. I am used to him doing that
so don't feel sorry for me.

Lonnie did the bulk of the work laying out the course. He
started by designing the overall landplot completed many of
the hills creating the stadium affect of the TPC courses.
Also he had a general idea of the hole layout after placing
in the nine lakes. He built the course around the landscape.
He used as his guide "Golf Courses of the PGA Tour" which
among other things list the average score per hole. This
determines the difficulty of each hole. The PGA score avg
is 72.48 so don't feel intimidated if you don't break par.

After that I took over. I redesigned a couple of his trees 
and created the tall southern pine. We have four new trees 
in all although one is only used once on the 17th hole. It
is rather unique. 

I love to rework golf courses but Lonnie's didn't take much.
I have a pet peeve about fairways dragging into rough and 
water creeping up hills. Most of the holes play to their 
true measurements but some distance can be saved by cutting
the corners. You won't hardly find a straight hole but there 
aren't any in Texas either. Be careful as some fairways may 
be overshot. It will sometimes make better sense to lay up
rather than face a long breaking putt and as you know in Texas
nothing is small. I have had to putt from over a 100 ft and it
can turn into to your worst nightmare.

We have tried to capture the beauty of the land as well as the
challange of the game. You won't find anything ridiculous to
cause you unfair added strokes. We feel with a good design you
will do that by yourself. Breaking par however will be quite 
an achievement.

If anyone has any courses they would liked reworked send them 
to me. I am also looking for yardage books from various courses
around the country. You can reach me at.

Rod Harris, 314 E Hancock, Appleton, Wi 54911      414-731-6814