COURSE:   The Olympic Club
LOCATION: San Francisco, California
JNUG DESIGNER:  Scott Chesney


The Olympic Club in California is a truly great golf course.  It
also represents my favorite personal effort to date at
reconstructing golf courses using the Jack Nicklaus Unlimited
Golf Designer.  I love it because it doesn't use much sand and
uses no water as hazards, yet it is one of the most challenging
courses you could ever wish to play.  It's hazards derive from
its very narrow, undulating, and often tilted fairways.  You
absolutely must be on top of your accuracy game to score here. 
The course is very fair, in that if you acheive consistent
accuracy you can break par (my own personal best is a 66), but on
a bad day you can shoot very high.  A strong wind makes it even
more of a challenge.  On  several holes you must thread the
needle.  I keep coming back again and again to play here, even
though I have designed several course since.  I have tried to
duplicate the tall pines and eucalyptus trees which populate the
actual course.  If you are in those tall trees, they do provide
you with the change to thread between them without hitting the
leaves....another thing I love about the course. 

I hope your enthusiasm will approach mine for this course.  If
you haven't done so already, check out the many courses by Jay
Johnson....He cranks out quality courses over and over again and
has focused on relatively unknown course in Japan and other parts
of the world.  He has done some great trees and shrubs which I
believe he has put on Accolade's bulletin board.  Check them
out...you won't be disappointed.

I welcome your comments or suggestions (and naturally, any
courses you might have made).  Good playing to you.

Scott Chesney
27 Edgerly-Garrison Road
Durham, New Hampshire  03824
603-868-1251