NOTES ON TROUBLESOME CREEK   

     Course Name:  Troublesome Creek Golf and Hunt Club
     Location:     Eubanks, Oklahoma
     Length/Par:   3,313/35 - 3,448/36  -  6,761/71
     Designers:    Clifford Johnson, Sammy Hendrix, Robert Smith
     Difficulty:   Moderate to Difficult
     Thanks to:    Mark Willett, for his background borrowed from the JNSE 
                   rendition of Oakmont Country Club
     JNSE Design:  Lee Ritze
     
It's been a while since I've done one of these, and I feel a little rusty as 
I wrap this one up.  Troublesome Creek has been poking along for about seven 
months now.  At points I thought I'd never finish it.

Although probably not as polished as much as a few other courses I did in 1992,
I've gotten as big a kick out of playing this course as any I've made.  This 
may be because I made this one with no intention of ever "publishing" it.  So
I just put the kind of play values into the course that I enjoy most.  That 
meant hills, trees, hills and hills.

I've borrowed a background that Mark Willett made for the Oakmont recreation
he partered on with Dave Salamon.  I had a decent new background for a few months
for Troublesome Creek.  But then a month or so ago I saw Oakmont on the Accolade
BBS and downloaded it.  I imported the background from Oakmont into Troublesome,
and the look I'd been wanting was just THERE.  From that point, I couldn't go 
back to my original.  This background is just one of many things I've borrowed 
from Mark's work over the past couple years.  Probably the greatest fun I've ever 
had with this hobby is the many hours that Mark and I sat in restaurants in 
Denver in 1992 talking about JNSE course design.  Thank you, Mark. 

I don't see Troublesome Creek as great golf course design.  It just represents
fun golf holes that I've discovered as a player over the years.  Several of 
the holes come from memories of playing Yale University Golf Course this 
spring... probably the most fun I've ever had exploring a new course.  Others 
come from a mixture of public courses I've played in Cincinnati and northeast 
Texas.

I hope that you'll get a kick out of playing this course, and not take it too
seriously.  This will probably be my last JNSE design, as work has become
pretty intense for me in the last several months.  But I'm sure that whenever 
Accolade release their next generation of JN-whatever, I'll be one of the 
first to plunk down my $50 and see what the new version will let me do to
Augusta, St. Andrews... and maybe even Troublesome Creek.

Lee Ritze

Copyright Notice

This course may not be sold or leased in any venue.  It may be copied as is
and distributed freely. In addition, the original artwork may not be reused
in subsequent designs by other JNSE designers if the course is to be sold in
any venue.  The course files, in their entirety, may be distributed freely to 
bulletin board services, including those which charge subscription and usage 
fees as long as the only fees associated with the acquistion of the course by 
a board-user are those subscription fees and/or per-minute charges for the 
cost of download.

This text file is considered an integral part of the course project and must
be distributed with the course files.

The backgound used in this course is the creation of Mark Willett.  I believe 
my use of this background fits within the restrictions Mark prefers for the
borrowing and distribution of his work.  I restrict the distribution of this 
course in the same fashion Mark does, with the intent of continuing to protect
the distribution of his work as Mark prefers.