*********************************************************************** COURSE NAME : Forest Oaks Country Club LOCATION : Approximately 10 miles southeast of Greensboro, NC ARCHITECT : Ellis Maples JNSE DESIGN : Roger Johnson *********************************************************************** ABOUT THE COURSE Welcome to Forest Oaks Country Club, site of the annual Greater Greensboro Open. Designed by Ellis Maples and opened for play in 1965, Forest Oaks is considered one of the most demanding courses on the PGA Tour. The course has seen some extensive renovations in the past few years. Two years ago(1991), the 16th and 17th greens were redesigned and enlarged. Since last year's tournament, with the help of Fuzzy Zoeller, the 18th hole has undergone major renovations, including completely altering the green and its surrounding area. The green's surface has been lowered 2 1/2 feet, which improves sightlines for spectators and provides the players with a better target for their long iron approach shots. Also, mounds have been added around the green to greater enhance spectators' views of what usually boils down to an exciting GGO finish! ... From the 1992 GGO Tournament Program ***************************************************** FROM THE DESIGNER I hope you enjoy playing Forest Oaks as much as I did designing it. After several years of GGO visits, I'm happy to have a JNSE version of the course. I've given much attention to the course elevations and green slopes in hopes of giving you the best representation of Forest Oaks that I can. I must say that I am pretty well pleased with the outcome. There are a few spots around the course that I feel I must mention for those of you who are not familiar with Forest Oaks. The first that comes to mind is the landing area of the tee shot at #13. I spent about an hour on Saturday of the tournament near that landing area and watched the reactions of the tee shots as they landed on the sidehill, downhill slope. The tee shot, to say the least, very much determines your destiny on this hole. I watched several players layup short of the slope, and also several who played the shot perfectly as their ball caught the slope and made its way down short of the water for a perfect attempt at reaching the par 5 in two with a long iron. I also watched the unfortunate one's who carried their ball a bit to far into the slope giving it little chance of stopping before finding the water at the bottom of the hill. I spent about 2 hours one night trying to perfect that downhill slope and after about 100 tee shots in all types of conditions, I'm pleased with it. So one word of caution, if the wind is at your back on the 13th tee, be cautious! Another spot I thought I would mention is the back right pin placement on #8. Also, while spending time at the green, I noticed that the only players whose tee shots threatened the pin were the one's that flirted dangerously with the right bunker. This is due totally to the right to left slope of the green. Also, spending two days at the tournament this year,I don't remember a putt being made over 20 feet. The greens had the pros chewing on their putter grips. Speed is a crucial element of putting well at Forest Oaks and I have done my best to bring you the green elevations as I noted while there. The background and objects are all borrowed with the exceptions of the slight altering I did to the green house, the red azalea and the dogwood. Spring is in full bloom at Forest Oaks during tournament time and hopefully I have done a good job at displaying that. I must say, if I was a great designer of backgrounds and objects, I couldn't come up with any that better fits the look around Forest Oaks than the one's I've chosen to use. So have fun while in North Carolina and Davis Love's course record of 62 during his win in 1992 is there for the taking. Sincerely, Roger Johnson Prodigy ID - SNHJ01A NVN ID - RJOHNSON6