Behind every golf hole lies an influence on every golfer's game that few golfers ever contemplate: the course architect. Why a hole dog-legs left and not right, why bunkers end up where they are, the length of a hole, the view from the tee - all these factors and many more are the result of choices made by the golf architect to challenge, and ...
Fiendishly difficult and spectacularly beautiful - Pete Dye's golf courses are among the most exciting in the world. In this volume, 130 were selected to honour his 85th birthday - among them such famous marvels as Teeth of the Dog, PGA West, TPC Sawgrass and Black Wolf Run, but also less well-known ones that will come as a revelation and a lure ...
Many years before his death in 1948, legendary golf course architect Donald Ross wrote a book that was never published. Within the manuscript, Ross offered many of his thoughts on the game that he so dearly loved. In the mid-1990s, the book was miraculously rediscovered and published to great acclaim. "Golf Has Never Failed Meis" presents an ...
Described as "the modern bible of golf architecture," this text distills Dr. Hurdzan's 30 years of knowledge and experience into one source. Beautifully illustrated with 326 color photographs, and 80 course maps and drawings, it chronicles all facets of designing, building, renovating and restoring a golf course. This single source provides a ...
The 1990s and opening years of the current decade witnessed an explosion in the number of high-quality public and resort golf courses around the world. During this period, the golf travel landscape has changed, with new courses and places to stay often clustered into areas that have emerged as golf destinations. Noted golf travel expert Brian ...
As every golfer knows, hazards are the heart and soul of the game. This single source reference is ideal if you re-charged with caring for or overseeing the improvement of a golf course. Authors, and golf course designers, Forrest Richardson and Mark Fine trace the history, planning, psychology, design, construction, and maintenance associated ...
When it comes to golf course design, Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey S. Cornish are true masters. Over the past few decades, they have produced every type of course imaginable: long and short, entry level and upscale, courses built on ocean bluffs and swamps, courses located in the United States and around the world. Now, drawing on this vast ...
'In "Rough Meditations", reading about golf courses is almost as much fun as playing them' - Arnold Palmer. 'Many golfers have strong opinions when it comes to course architecture. Nobody, however, matches Brad Klein's ability to explain the difference between good and bad design. "Rough Meditations" deserves a place on that select list of must ...
"Golf Course Architecture, Second Edition" is fully updated with more than fifty percent new material, including more than twenty-five recent innovations in the golf industry. Revealing both the art and science of golf course architecture, it takes readers inside the designer's mind through each step to designing a golf green, golf hole, and golf ...
Golf course construction continues to burgeon in the United States, Asia, and around the world. This book meets the needs of practicing landscape architects and other practicing professionals involved in the design or re-design of golf courses. Each classic hole is described in terms relevant to the designer including its basic design, its ...
This book provides complete guidelines to developing and maintaining the most effective, environment friendly irrigation systems for golf courses. "Golf Course Irrigation" offers valuable insight on the design, installation, management, and maintenance of irrigation systems the most important management tool used on today's golf courses. Without ...
"Sustainable Golf Courses" is the most authoritative guidebook on environmental stewardship of planned and existing golf courses available, written by the leading expert and endorsed by the USGA. The book serves as a reference and guide for all who are involved in golf course design, development, and management, and integrates practical, ...
Filled with advice, tips, strategies, and problem-solving techniques from some of the leading figures in golf architecture, Routing the Golf Course provides unique insight into the most essential phase of designing a golf course. Coverage includes material on all aspects of planning a golf course such as site evaluation; environmental conditions; ...
A fully illustrated, ultimate reference source for anyone interested in golf, this vivid and authoritative history of golf course design also offers a complete listing of all major golf courses in the world.
For the first time a book finally combines field experience with the fundamentals of turf science to help you understand the concepts involved in proper grown-in management, and to troubleshoot problems on-site throughout the management process. A major goal os this unique handbook is to outline and detail the numerous quality control issues that ...
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