Course Name:      The Chip and Putt Classic, 1993 
Location:         Imaginary course
Course Par:       60
For use with:     Jack Nicklaus' Signature Edition 
Difficulty level: Easy to Moderate 
Course Architect: Michael Jay Songer

     Welcome to the 1993 Chip and Putt Classic.  Here the
emphasis is on shotmaking ability.  The course will test you with
every club that is available.  Also available on site are four
tennis courts, and on some sfternoons a game will be going on the
diamond.
     Several years ago I did a course for Mean18 which I called
the Chip and Putt classic.  This is not a redesign of that
course, but is an entirely new course built around the same
concept.  What happened to my original design I don't know,
except that it disapeared along with most of my Mean18 course
collection when I moved to Georgia.  Upon unpacking I found the
disks, but they were all blank.
     Originally I was going to recreate the par three course
located at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL.  The
problems I found from this start were 1) the JU course in only 9
holes, 2) playing the same nine twice through using different
tees, as is dome when playing the course, would be boring on the
computer, and 3) the course has very few trees, is nearly flat,
is always wet because it is between the rise on which the
University sits and the St. John's River, and during two of the
years I was at JU, after the golf coach retired and before a new
pro took the position, was so poorly maintained that fairway
could be, at best, considered rough.  
     I still liked this course, for all its problems it was fun
to play. In addition, it has the backdrop of the St. John's River, 
Downtown Jacksonville, the university, the Jacksonville shipyards, 
the Matthew's Bridge, and, least liked, the Seminole-Kraft paper
mill.  My final decision to create an entire new course, and not
just add 9 new holes to JU, was when my background with the
Jacksonville skyline wouldn't import from the PCX file.  If I
ever manage this succesfully, I'll use the background in another
course, incorporating the nine holes from JU with additional
holes.
     The background I finally chose for this course was imported
from the JNSE version of the Sawgrass TPC.  Base objects were
imported from courses by Gene Rodriguez III, Alan Pajari, and Ted
Maiden.  A number of the objects are of my own creation, and all
of those borrowed have been modified.  I would like to thank all
of the people from whom I have borrowed objects for this course.

Michael Jay Songer
822 Tuxworth Circle
Decatur, GA 30033 

Prodigy :NTCM27C
GEnie   :M.Songer
