NOTES ON SEMINOLE GOLF CLUB    

     Course Name:  Seminole Golf Club
     Location:     Palm Beach, Florida
     Length/Par:   3,548/36 - 3,320/36  =  6,778/72
     Designer:     Donald Ross, T. Claiborn Watson
     Club Record:  60, Claude Harmon, 1948              
     Difficulty:   Easy to Moderate
     Thanks to:    Scott Chesney, Jay Johnson, Rod Harris and Ted Maiden for
                   a wonderful combination of palms, pines, palmettos, pampas                     grass, etc. that I borrowed from their fine works
     JNUG Design:  Lee Ritze (VIALEE on Accolade BBS, TKNK81A on Prodigy)

     The Yardage Card:
                   OUT                  IN 
             HOLE  PAR  YARDS     HOLE  PAR  YARDS
               1    4    373       10    4    381      
               2    4    384       11    4    412
               3    5    509       12    4    366
               4    4    451       13    3    173
               5    3    195       14    5    505
               6    4    390       15    5    498
               7    4    431       16    4    393
               8    3    236       17    3    175
               9    5    489       18    4    417
                   ___  _____           ___  _____
                   36   3458            36   3320 

Seminole Golf Club is recognized as one of the very finest and most exclusive of clubs in South Florida.  At his peak, Ben Hogan would spend late Winter and early Spring each year at Seminole preparing for his first competitive appearance of the year -- at The Masters.  Seminole is a wide open and highly manicured course, with its major challenges coming from the predominant southeasterly wind and 200+ bunkers.

Because of the course's open nature, Seminole is probably likely to yield better scores than any of my previous creations.  Given the limitations of flat terrain and the flat Florida horizon, however, I believe you'll find Seminole as visually appealing as any I've made.  I put alot of effort into building the surrounding holes that are visible from each given hole on the course.  The other nearby greens and tees are an important and beautiful part of the views available throughout Seminole.  I hope you like the effect.  I got the idea of modeling adjacent holes from the great Spyglass course by Scott Chesney and Neil Bonner, and tried to carry that idea a step further in terms of physical accuracy.


Thanks for downloading Seminole...I hope you enjoy it.  If you like Seminole, you may also care to try my other courses:

  Durango Pines   DURANGO.ZIP       southern Colorado           Feb 91 
  Devil's Thumb   DEVILSTB.ZIP      northern Colorado           Mar 91
  Useless Bay     USELESS.ZIP       Olympic Peninsula,          Apr 91
                                    Washington
  Whitehorse Pass WHITEHOR.ZIP      northern British Columbia   Apr 91
  Bay of Rainbows RAINBOW.ZIP       foothills of Jura           May 91
                                    Mountains, Moon
  FireWheel       FIREWHL.ZIP       Garland, Texas Near Dallas  May 91

Comments, criticisms and suggestions for new course settings are always welcome, through Prodigy, Accolade BBS or mail.  My address is:

Lee Ritze
1207 Cannes Place
Carrollton, TX 75006
(214) 245-0937