I played University Ridge yesterday and they are in the process of renovating the course. Essentially they are adding back tee boxes on nearly every hole, adding about 350 yards in total and making it 7,240 yards. Some of the holes will be extremely difficult, like 17 at 247 yards over water.
Jim,
Back in the 90s when regularly I played University Ridge (for the student fee as a grad student), I found #17 to be tough enough at about 200 yards. At 247 yards it is going to be downright scary. 
I'd consider playing University Ridge on a monthly basis or so if it weren't for the death-march pace of play that I used to experience out there. I can't imagine it being any better now than 10 years ago. Its a fun course to play otherwise.
Cheers,
Brad
...and pace of play has a lot to do with RTJ Jr.'s crappy routing and design of the front nine. The start is good enough (medium-length par 4 from an elevated tee), but it gets goofy quickly, with an odd par 5 that screams "go for it" to all but the hobbled, but is actually a par 5 with all kinds of trouble around the green and elsewhere for those who try and fail to get there in two. It's compounded by the layup looking like it should be a 7-iron (at most) that's set at a right angle to the fairway. It's followed by a very hard par 3 (harder, in my view, than the much-acclaimed 17th) that is all carry over a marsh to a wide but shallow green. And that's followed still by a nerve-wracking uphill par 4 where anything left of the fairway is likely to be behind a row of giant trees, and anything right is down below in the muck and unfindable.
All of this, of course, makes for a four-hole opening that -- in all seriousness -- has sometimes taken me 90 minutes to play. Backups on the par 5, waits on tees, looking for lost balls -- all of it occurs with all-too-familiar frequency at URidge's opening. It's like much of URidge -- taken individually, RTJ Jr designed some very good holes, and actually has several good ones on the back nine that promote risk-and-reward decision-making. But taken together, the course flows poorly, and its opening holes in particular make for a less-than-auspicious introduction to the course.
Add in its near-un-walkability (it's over some really hilly terrain in parts), and I've always viewed URidge as a great opportunity lost.