MULLIGAN'S POINT 
an original design for JNSE
by Mark Alan Willett

HISTORY
Welcome to version 3 of Mulligan's Point.  For those not keeping track, 
Mulligan's Point began as a design for JNUG in January of 1992.  As a project,
it filled the gap between Christmas and the release of JNSE in March.  That  
was the time period when all the avid JNUGers were panting with anticpation
for the new product.
  Originally set in the lower pensinula of Michigan, the JNUG version was
intended to be a fairly easy test for the player-fanatics. Instead of high
skill demand, it asked only that you enjoy yourself while playing it.
  It quickly became a real favorite for me, and after I started to get a
handle on the new design module and its 256-color palette, I decided that
Mulligan's Point was due for a revision...this time in autumn colors.
  As a number of course designers have discovered, even with control of the
JNSE palette, executing a course in fall colors is no walk in the park. And 
after a month-or-more of struggling with the new objects, I finally shook my 
head, threw up my arms in frustration, and released the course.
  Though the course was fairly well received, when it came down to my own 
opinion of the objects and their colors, I certainly felt I had, indeed,
"executed" them.
  Worse, certain elements of the new JNSE play module had not really come 
home to roost in my psyche.  As a result, some holes did not make the 
conversion very well to JNSE.  Spotted with JNUG "texturing" which gave a
better appearance for that software, the additional bumps-and-grinds tended
to play havoc with ball control in JNSE.  And many fairways were too narrow 
or had objects which encroached on play far too often.
  One major change that came out of version 2 was the reversal of the front 
and back nines.  The fifth-through-ninth holes in the JNUG version were so
popular with players that not to reverse them would have seemed foolish.  So,
a bit sheepishly, I swapped the sets.  I shouldn't have been sheepish, I 
discovered later that Bobby Jones had done the same with Augusta National
after the course had opened. 
  Still, I never stopped tinkering.  Fact is, every time I had a spare hour or 
so, I just kept plugging away while trying to find the right look for
the course.  When I discovered a photo book of fall foliage with pictures
from the northern midwest, northeast, and Canada, I finally knew the look that 
I was after: late fall, maybe the last possible round of the season.
  Now when I tinkered, I at least had a goal, and version 3 is the result. 
When Prodigy called, the new version was almost complete. The decision to  
strike the old and rebuild a new 13th came as I was putting in "final" 
strokes.  I had not been pleased with the fact that the 4th and 13th played
so similarly and, combined with several other technical problems, felt that a
new hole just made sense. I'm delighted it's being seen for the first time on
the PNGT.
  Mulligan's Point, in its various versions, represents some 500-600 hours of 
personal effort.  Though it plays with a good step more difficulty than its 
JNUG predecessor, I certainly hope it brings you at least a fraction of the 
hours of pleasure I had in creating it.

DEDICATION
For Kerry Leibowitz, who continued to like this course even during those
times when I figured it was a lost cause.

(signed)
Mark Alan Willett
Denver, Colorado
September 19, 1992

Questions may directed to me via my Prodigy ID:  FNVV69A.

Those who enjoy MULLIGAN'S POINT, may also appreciate my other JNSE courses:
ALHAMBRA, ISLES, and SCORPION. Soon to be released are GABRIELLE GARDENS
(with Scott Chesney, Paul Conrad, Ted Maiden, Lee Ritze, and Gene 
Rodriguez), and CHERRY HILLS (with Ted Maiden).  I also expect my version of 
OAKMONT to be available before the end of 1992.  Search for them on fine
freeware BBSs everywhere...