The Course

I didn't like the course. I really wanted to because of it's creativity and excitment, but I just didn't like it.

The course featured a lot of up and down. It had unrealistic hills, and featured odd mounds everywhere. I found that a few greens that were unhitable if you played in dry mode, and I did find a few unplayable shots, like at the bottom of #13's FW. The objects, and background didn't cut it for me either. The scenery was poor. There were a lot of shots were I saw choppy water, and or bunkers (like on the first hole). I think the idea was there, but it was overdone.

The plot was excellent, probably the best one Ben has ever done. I really enjoyed the creativity and smoothness of hole #7. It provides a tough risk reward situation, and shows the green off the tee. This just screams to the golfer, "go for it!" I also enjoyed the 16th hole. I thougth that it had the best looking shot on the course. Good work Ben, but it didn't work for me...

Ben has been working on the JNSE rendition of this course for quite some time now. It is a revision of an 8 year old course from JNUG (by Paul Warren) and I was eagerly anticipating the release of it. I was not disappointed.

The wild elevations on this course are gonna make people either love it or hate it. I loved it. The wild elevations, combined with tight fairways, and many bunkers made precision shotmaking a must. If you missed the fairway or green even by a few yards, you could roll into a very tough lie or a tough bunker. I thought that this was brilliant design. Even with the wild elevations, I never once found an unplayable lie. On #8 I hit the water on my approach and had to drop 26 yards from the pin in heavy rough. You get one try to get up to the pin, which I didn't make. Then, the slope is too tough and I had to chip into the fairway. Another piece of great designing.

My favourite hole on the course was #13. It is a fairly short par 5 (about 490 yards). The risk/reward situation here is awesome. If you can hit the green, you have a great chance for eagle. But if you miss (especially short), you will end up with a really high uphill shot and a good chance at bogey or worse.

The only thing I didn't like about this course was the scenery. I didn't care for the pallette and I thought that the trees were too dark. But the tough shots that this course forced me to make really made up for it.

I don't think you'll be disappointed by The Course.