BURNT MILL RUN GOLF COURSE Location: Near Smithfield, Virginia Type: Original Length: Out: 3365 - In: 3332 Total: 6697 Design: (c) 1993, Gene Rodriguez III Burnt Mill Run has been knocking around on my hard drive since late winter. I've been trying (and in some cases discarding) a number of new techniques in the JNSE designer, and this course was the test bed for a number of them. Finally, I decided to get it finished and out in the world. The land plot is taken from a topographical map entitled "Bacon Castle" produced by the USGS. The land currently consists of rolling farms tucked in and among the meandering Lawnes Creek and its surrounding marshes. At the start of this project, I intended to take the contours directly from this map. After several long tedious sessions of trying to trace the contours onto a hole overhead and then adding elevations to them, I realized that this method would take entirely too long. Consequently, the water and shoreline features are accurate, but the elevations are only an approximation of what actually exists on site. The Burnt Mill Run property sits hard against a turn in the James River called Burwell Bay, almost equidistant between Norfolk and Williamsburg, Virginia. The course is about nine miles due south of the Surry Nuclear Power Facility, and you can see the containment structures in the background from many areas of the course... always helps to know your neighbors. {g} This course features a further refinement of the video capture hardware/ software I used for Furnace Springs. With FS, I used the system to capture objects from television coverage of several desert tournaments. This time, I used a VHS camcorder to capture trees for the course. I was able to get some great shots of specimen trees at a local cemetery, these trees were perfectly formed and stood in relative isolation, thus reducing the amount of "background clutter" that needed to be cleaned out of the screen shots. HOLE NAMES The holes at Burnt Mill Run are named after place names that were found on the "Bacon Castle" map, they all refer to real places or features. A NOTE ON ACCESS You may notice that on some of the holes their appears to be no way to walk or ride from one part of the hole to another. The reason for this is that, try as I might, I couldn't replicate a wooden trestle/walkway. In reality, this is how the marsh areas would be crossed, but the current designer prevents this type of structure from being accurately portrayed. I decided that in the absence of such a structure, I'd let the players imagination fill in the gaps... FORE! I hope you enjoy your round(s) at Burnt Mill Run. I spent quite a bit of time on the look and feel of this work. The course follows my tradition of being "golfer friendly" while at the same time providing a pleasant visual experience. I hope you find this to be so, June 28, 1993 Gene Rodriguez III 428 Benlea Circle Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454 Member: Accolade BBS, 19th Hole BBS, National Videotex Network OBJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY: (In order of appearance) Cherry Tree - Video Captured; Rosemont Cemetery Plum Tree - Video Captured; front yard, Waterway Surveys Oak - Video Captured; Rosemont Cemetery Beech - Video Captured; Rosemont Cemetery Conifer - Original, created from Video Captured foliage Deciduous - Original, created from Video Captured foliage Marsh Grass - Modified from Lee Ritze's St. Andrew's Dune Grass Marsh Grass - " " Marsh Grass - " " Pine - Lee Ritze, Seminole Wind Ground Cover - Modified from Lee Ritze's St. Andrew's Dune Grass Marker - Original Flag - Original Ground Cover - Mark Willett, Alhambra Dead Fall - Scott Chesney, Shattuck Small Bush - Unknown Ground Cover - David Dykeman, Adirondack Preserve Dead Tree - David Dykeman, Adirondack Preserve Pine - Lee Ritze, Augusta OTHER COURSES BY THE DESIGNER: Bay Bridge Greens - Fictional Golf by the Chesapeake Bay Royal St. Kitts - A Caribbean island resort course Nahabino Golf Course - Located just outside Moscow, Russia Furnace Springs Golf and Country Club - Fictional Desert Course, Sonoran Desert, Arizona Course design and all original material, (c) 1993, Gene Rodriguez III