WWhitehead,
The golf course is the LEAST repetitive and underwhelming thing about the University of New Jersey at Durham, a.k.a. Dook.
I grew up in Durham, but went to college at UNC. Later, when I decided to get a Masters, I went to Dook. It is a part of my life that I don't like to talk about, but I have gradually learned to face up to my mistakes.
In addition to doing far, far less work than I had done in high school, I realized that the only thing on campus higher than the Dook Chapel was the unjustified opinion Dookies hold of their school. The bottom line is that you can build buildings to LOOK old, and you can charge triple what you should for a college education, but at the end of the day, it is still just Dook. It doesn't even worry me when we lose a basketball game to Dook (and I'm a basketball coach!) because I know the next morning they still have to wake up and face who and what they are.
As for the golf course, it is a solid if unspectacular track on a beautiful piece of property. It is far better now than before Rees Jones reworked it a number of years ago, but I have never told anyone headed for the Triangle that it was a course they needed to play. (By the way, I feel the same way about Finley at UNC , though it is marginally better and populated by MUCH nicer people). By far the best of the three university courses in the Triangle is the new NCSU course in Raleigh. There have been several threads about it; if you are ever back in the area, it is worth the trip down I-40.
Best regards,
A.G. Crockett, UNC '74