Course: Boulder Beach Country Club
Architect: Jeff Kissel
Begun: November 1999
Completed: December 1999
Revised: March 2000 (parallel holes on terrain)
         June 2000 (new quotes, land plot, various minor course improvements)
Released: June 14, 2000

Boulder Beach Country Club started out as my vision of what a course near Monterey, 
California should look like (its original name was "Monterey Beach CC").  Unfortunately,
once I got into working on it, I realized that it didn't look much like California.  
So I decided to change the location to the Oregon coast.  I've never been to Oregon and 
I really don't know if this looks like it or not but the new, more northern location 
fits the course's scenery much better than the old one did.  I chose the name 
"Boulder Beach" because I liked how it sounds like Pebble Beach.  But aren't boulders 
bigger than pebbles?

The course is a straight par 72, with four par threes, ten par fours, and four par fives.
It offers a wide variety of holes; from tight to wide open, mounded greens to "bowl" 
greens, and inland to clifftop.  It is not overly long, measuring 6,835 yards from the 
Championship tees, but not really overly tight either.  Its main defense against golfers 
is the prevailing wind, which can get pretty gusty at times and plays into the face of 
the golfers on all five of the ocean holes.  Boulder Beach, as is the case with all of my
courses, has no cart paths anywhere on the course.  This lack of pavement is due to my
severe disdain for the use of carts in "real" golf.  I always walk when I play, and I
carry this philosophy over to my computer designs.

Boulder Beach is my first fantasy course where I "drew" other holes on the course onto 
each hole's terrain.  I always have wanted to do this to a course but was worried about 
how it might look.  It was a lot tougher and more tedious than I had initially expected 
(even though I had initially routed the holes fairly far apart), and I don't know if I 
plan to do it again.

I consider this course the best fantasy I've ever done, by far (my version of the
Innsbrook Estates Resort in Wright City, Missouri, yet to be completed, is so accurate 
to the original it's scary... so that might be my best overall).  That reason probably 
is why this one is my first release, even though it's my most recent (completed) design.  
It really has no "weak" holes architecturally (those about which people wonder, "What is
that doing here?!"), as most of my others do.  And the last 5 holes are the best, and 
definitely the most dramatic finishing stretch I've ever done.  As far as I'm concerned, 
Boulder Beach is my pride and joy.  Enjoy it.

A copy of this text file is included with the course's zip file.