AFTON MOUNTAIN COUNTRY CLUB Location: Charlottesville, Virginia Type: Reality based fiction Length: Out: 3249 - In: 3571 Total: 6820 Design: Unknown (based on Birdwood, UVa) IN THE BEGINNING... Afton Mountain CC started life as a scorecard given to me out of the bag of my future brother-in-law (thanks, Alan!) The card was from the University of Virginia golf course, Birdwood. I was particularly taken with the 2nd and 6th holes and thought this might make a great JNSE course. The problem was that I'd never seen the course and had no immediate hope of getting to it... My solution to this problem was to get a copy of the "Charlottesville, West" USGS topographic map and locate the course from there. With map in hand, I was able to digitize the gross contours of the course terrain. Having spent some time in the C-ville area, I was basically familiar with the "look" and was able to come up with a suitable background. The course itself came together rather quickly, but having no "on the ground" knowledge of how the course played, I didn't feel comfortable releasing this as a non-fiction work. Changing the names to protect the innocent seemed the best course of action. {g} ABOUT THE COURSE Afton Mountain has some fairly significant changes in elevation... this is a bit of a departure for me since most of my courses tend to be coastal in nature, and thus don't vary much vertically. The nature of the course makes for some approach shots that really test the players ability to select the proper club and shot. Another interesting aspect of the course if that the back plays significantly longer than the front. Score as well as you can going out, 'cause it's tough to make up ground coming in to the house! Observant players of my previous courses will note that I've done away with fringe around the green on most holes. I think this adds a level of difficulty to the course that might not otherwise be there. Hopefully, scores on AM will bear this out, but in any event, I think it makes a nice change of pace for my work... A NOTE TO TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS Afton Mountain CC is not a course that favors dry conditions! I felt that I'd have to compromise the elevation work too much to compensate for JNSE's "less than accurate" portrayal of those conditions. If you run a tournament that features dry conditions, the wrath of your players should be directed at you and not the designer... {g} TEE ME UP! I hope you enjoy your round(s) at Afton Mountain. It's a fun round of electronic golf. Now that this one's out the door, I can concentrate on Crooked Stick and my fictional links- style work... not necessarily in that order. {g} November 1, 1993 Gene Rodriguez III 428 Benlea Circle Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454 Member: Accolade BBS, 19th Hole BBS, National Videotex Network PS If you've ever played or seen the Birdwood course, please don't judge my rendition too harshly... it's hard to be accurate when you're working from a scorecard and a topo map! Let's just call it artistic license and leave it at that... {g} OBJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY: The object set was taken almost completely from the Burnt Mill Run set. Thanks to Lee Ritze, Scott Chesney and David Dykeman for their respective contributions. 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 Burnt Mill Run - Fictional parkland golf Near Smithfield, VA Course layout and all original material, (c) 1993, Gene Rodriguez III