BARBUDA ROYALE - The Par-Three Course
An Original Design by Mark Alan Willett
for Accolade's Jack Nicklaus Golf and Course Design - Signature Edition

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Original Design Elements (c) 1994 Mark Alan Willett
Those elements include the background, the BR-3 logo, and objects 1 - 11, 
17 - 26.

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For quite some time I've wanted to do a par-three course for the simple
reason that I enjoy designing par threes.  So what took me so long?

There's something not quite "golf serious" about a par three course,
something more light and airy, something that should be fun.

I don't think that many of the courses I've designed, with possible the 
exception ISLES over two years ago, capture that fun sense of things.

Until I did Barbuda Royale.  And the environment there struck a chord with me.
And the old urge to create a par-three course came back to me from some closet
deep inside.  Soooo, for those who want to practice their short game or for
those who want just want a little more of Barbuda Royale, here it is.

The decision to omit adjacent holes, BTW, was a very intentional one.  I had
started the ground work to add them to the course, and realized that I just
wasn't having a whole lot of fun doing it.  Everything else had been pleasant
with the development of the course but I felt that, for the first time with
JNSE, I wanted to have as much fun from beginning to end in the creation
process as I could.  Ergo, the tedious drudgery of adding adjacents has been
omitted.

For those who miss them dearly, the stores are loaded with acetate and
markers, and you're welcome to have it.  But I suspect that not too many
are really gonna pay much mind on BR-3 when all is said and done...

And, as careful inspection of the course overhead may show, there are no
plans to build Barbuda Royale - West. 

For those who have questions and comments, I can currently be found 
facilitating a JNSE design forum on CompuServe Information Services under 
the Sports Simulation Forum group. Feel free to join us anytime...

Oh, and watch out for the goat stampede that annually trashes the 14th hole.


MARK ALAN WILLETT
Denver, Colorado
September, 1994

Postscript:  Why would I name the twelfth hole after myself?  Easy.  The 
first time I played the hole after the course was completed, the ball bounced 
off the rim of the pond, up onto the green, and into the cup.  Trick shooters 
everywhere: Eat your hearts out!
