The Sunday Woods Golf Club

A Jack Nicklaus 4 (c) design

Release : 01/12/97

Designer : Dominique BOIS (dominique_bois@ascom.fr)

Type : fantasy inland course

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Some words...

First, I apologize for my english but I don't think that a french speak would
be a success.

This is the first golf course design that I dare to put on the net. I've 
already done some courses (and a few is enjoyable) under JNSE but I never 
did the first step. Here it is...

This is my second native JN4 design. The first is a real course located in 
Annonay,Ardeche (France) where I live. The staff of this golf rather 
appreciated the design, but I think too much important details where 
impossible to design (due to the few JN4 objects) and I wait (beaving) for 
JN5 to enhance my work.

With JNSE I used to start my fantasy designs by shaping the hills of the 
whole course and after doing the routing (this what is done in real life 
except that it's a little difficult to shape a landscape...). With JN4 this 
is not possible (I don't know with JN5), so this course started to be built 
by the 18th. I had a dream (!) of this uphill hole with two ponds on the 
left. So, after the design of the 18th, I created the 1st downhill and I 
did the whole routing. The idea was to do a course with no huge elevations 
and not much water. I had also the idea of some holes going out and in the 
forest wich is present on most part of the course. The other idea was to have 
a leitmotiv for the bunker design, so I took the fairway bunker of the 18th 
to desgin bunkers made of wide areas linked by sand paths. In my opinion if 
some are a bit strange I find some others very nice.

Some other words about the holes :

1 - DOWN AND OUT
This downhill dog-leg left par 4 , after use,seems to be a great birdie hole
(that's perfect for a 1st I think). You need to drive over the pond and the two
first trees at the left of the fairway (a draw is required). If you are too 
straight, you hit he rough. The green is small and well protected, but, as the 
second shot is a short iron, it is easy to get a bird.

2 - RAVINE
This first par 5 is also an easy hole. You can get the green in 2 if you are
strong enough at the tee shot over a great ravine. Even if this is not an eagle,
the birdie stays on this flat elevated green.

3 - MOON
The first par 3 of the course requires a mid to long iron and is well 
protected by a long bunker. The left pin placement is only reachable with a 
controlled little draw. The green is tight and has some difficult slopes. Play
par...

4 - OUT OF THE TREES 
This dog-leg right par 4 gets out of the forest with a bottleneck between 
the trees. The second shot requires a long iron or a wood to a very well
defended elevated green. It is very difficult to stop on the green. However, 
playing around the green is easy.

5 - TRIBUTE TO SCOTLAND
This dog-leg left par 4 plays scotish... Your drive must avoid the right 
fairway bunker living you a short iron to a green surrounded by pot bunkers.
A definite birdie hole

6 - BACK TO FOREST
This long uphill par 3  gives you little chance to keep the ball on the huge
green. The first put may be very long with heavy slope if you are not on the good 
tier. Think of a par...

7 - THE GATE
This short par 4 gives you two options due to the trees in the middle of the 
fairway : long and left to clear the trees or short an right to get a way 
between the trees and the forest. The three-level green punishes bad second or 
third shots. Dangerous hole...

8 - THREAD THE THROAT
On the longest par 4 of the out, you must keep your driver in your bag or try
to thread the thin throat of the 'tiger'. So after driving between the teeth 
of the tiger,the second shot requires another wood or long iron to a green 
defended by the tiger's tail. Learn to control the roll of the ball...

9 - RAVINE'S BACK
This long par 5 ends the out holes with a true 3-shooter. After an easy drive,
the second shot is strategic to open the way to a long curved green well 
defended on some pin placements. If wedge is your friend, you can think of 
a birdie.

10 - SHORTY
This short par 3 has a little green protected by the creek. However, the green
is not difficult to play and a good tee shot gives often a birdie.

11 - TREVINO'S 13TH
This par 5 reminds me a little Augusta's 13th but set for Lee TREVINO's fade. On
the tee, the danger is on the right with the creek. Then you can play for the 
green over the creek or stay short for a 3-shot green. The pin at the end of the
long green gives you chances of eagle...

12 - THE EDGE
This long par 4 reaches a fairway on the edge of the forest with a tee shot over
the creek again. Although bunkers on the left are dangerous, don't play too much
on the rigth, it is very long. The green is difficult with a front-to-back slope
but not very well protected. This allows you to play easily around.

13 - DOWN TO BEACH
This long dog-leg right par 4 makes you drive downhill over a short bunker. You
need to keep center-rigth to have open access to a green defended by huge 
bunkers. If your tee shot is weak, you have no chance to stop the ball on the
green with such a long 2nd.

14 - ROLL OVER
The last of the three long par 4 offers a wide fairway to power drivers. Again,
making the ball roll is a must here, with a very long 2nd shot to an open green.
If you are note close to the pin the put can be rather difficult.

15 - SAD SAD SAND
This shot par 4 may tease you with an opening to the fairway just beside the 
green. But take care, the woods on the rigth are ball eaters. You may want to
play a mid iron short before the bunkers then a blind wedge to the green. Or,
if you like sand play, drive into the bunkers...

16 - LONG AT LEAST
The last par 5 plays uphill to an elevated green. The fairway is wide but well
placed bunkers menace your 1st and 2nd shot. Take care with the wedge not to 
go back out of the green with the backspin. Then the green is far from being
flat...

17 - DOWN TO HELL
The last par 3 play steeply downhill to a three-level green. Club choice is
capital here. On the longer pin you may need to play with a little draw. Bad
green if you are not on the good tier.

18 - UP TO GLORY
This uphill par 4 is a demanding finishing hole. On the tee you may take care
of the right bunker and the lower pond on the left. Drive strong to get in sight 
with the green. The second shot over the upper pond lets you a rather different 
shot depending on pin placements. Finishing with a par is a good thing (in the 
real life I'm used with triple-bogey)


So, I hope you will like this course. It seems to me that it is not too easy and
not too difficult (easy par, difficult birdie is the best thing for good players
, I think)

I'd be gald to have your comments. E-mail me...

The projects that I have are :

JN5 version of Golf d'ANNONAY-GOURDAN
Golf Club des Volcans (in the center of France)
The Great White Beach Club (a former JNSE's fantasy that I like a lot)

I think four courses in a year is a max...

HAVE FUN !!!
