BARBUDA ROYALE 

Original Course Designs 
for Accolade's Jack Nicklaus Golf - Signature Edition

by Mark Alan Willett

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PROVISIONS
Original design elements are (c) 1994 Mark Alan Willett.

Those elements include the background, the Barbuda Royale logos, and 
objects 1 - 11, 17 - 26.

The courses may be distributed freely at no charge and without alteration to 
the files, including this text file - which is considered an integral part of 
the design.  In particular, the course may not be distributed by freeware or 
shareware houses. All other rights regarding the original design elements 
are reserved.
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NOTES

So what exactly is a "Barbuda" and what does that mean to you? (Or to me, for
that matter...)

"Barbuda" is an eensy-teensy island off the north northeast shores of South 
America.  It's in my atlas, but not in my desk-top enyclopedia.  It's also the 
perfect spot for a round of resort golf.

Maybe.

I have no idea what Barbuda looks like.  None.  Zip.  Nil.  I could write the
history of the area: Columbus stumbled on the island during his third voyage
and, in fact, potatoes were first discovered as a New World crop there and
then shipped back to Europe (where they failed to achieve acceptance for 
years); it's the sight of some of the most prolific sugar cane plantations in 
the Western Hemisphere; and the United States built sub pens there during 
WWII - not so much out of need as to stop the Germans from doing the same.  
In more recent years, movie stars, sports figures, and politicos (such as Mae 
West, Jim Thorpe, Vincent Price, Jack Nicholson, Papa Doc Duvalier, and Andre 
Agassi) have maintained homes there.

But that history is a fiction as large as the course itself. And I still have 
no idea what Barbuda looks like.  Then again, never having heard of Barbuda 
in my forty-one's years of existance, I don't know anyone else who knows what 
Barbuda looks like either.  I don't even know if anyone, or anything, lives 
there.  For all I know, it was the secret test site for a multi-warhead 
nuclear missile...and both the island and its remaining inhabitants (if any) 
glow brightly during Barbuda's artificially warm starlit eves.  They say the 
fire storms are invigorating in the winter.

So it all comes down to this, I wanted to build another palm-laden tropical
course, and I didn't want to set it in the ubiquitous South Seas.

Hence, a very brief visit to my atlas.  Hence, Barbuda: a fictional land laced 
with rolling hills, thick foliage, white sand beaches, seaside cliffs, the 
walled-province of Mordor, and occasional visits by Puff the Magic Dragon and 
the ghost of Winston Churchill.  

Most people don't know that Jefferson Davis spent the first ten years of his 
life on a plantation there.  Amelia Earhart retired there, and one can visit 
the monument-to and tomb-of James Hoffa.  Access is converting Barbuda for 
their next non-U.S. LINKS386 course.  Denver International's first baggage-
eating international flight is coming in from Barbuda.

Why is Barbuda "Royale?"  Well, that's an interesting story.  The Archduke 
Ferdinand wintered there and, in fact, had his first post-pubescent
sexual experience in one of the larger villages.  He paid with glass beads,
three guavas, and one of the worst cases of palm-frond itch ever recorded. The
natives have never forgotten the screams piercing the night...

Pigs fly, by the way.

And Andre says he hopes you shoot well, too.  He's never broken par on the
championship course.

So what if Barbuda doesn't exist this way?  Life would be richer, and funnier,
if it did.

I hope you have as much fun playing the course as I have had creating it. In 
many ways, for me, Barbuda Royale holds the same place in JNSE that Mulligan's
Point held in JNUG:  The course was designed to be pretty and fun, and it 
represents as much as I have learned about the software as possible. At times,
I wished I had another hundred objects per hole.  At times, I hated the fact
that JNSE "folds-up" terrain in the distance.  But within the limitations of
the software, this is about as good as my work gets.  Which won't stop from 
trying to do better with my next course, either.

More importantly, I think the course is pleasant to play on and to look at.

My thanks to Tony Woodward, constant friend; Jeff Perry, new friend; and Dave
Solamon, patient friend.  To John Kunyik for his friendship and constant 
support of the hobby.  To Gene Rodriguez III, thanks just for being Gene 
Rodriguez III.  The fact is that I have been honored to know some incredibly 
fine people who have been associated with JNSE. 

And to Brian Silvernail.  Just when I start to think there's little to learn 
from anyone else in JNSE design, Brian comes up with another stunning and 
edifying creation.


MARK ALAN WILLETT
Denver, Colorado
August 1994