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, Golf Course Architecture, Second Edition takes readers inside the designer’s mind through each step to designing a golf green, golf hole, and golf course.

Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of full-color photographs, course maps, and drawings, this Second Edition explains the roots of ugliness and sources of beauty in courses, how the landscape communicates, and the connection between golfers and golf courses.

Golf Course Architecture, Second Edition provides a wealth of accessible and helpful information on golf course architecture chronicling every facet of designing, building, renovating, and restoring a golf course.

Contents

Theory

1. What Is Golf Course Architecture?
2. Basic Criteria
3. Hazards
4. Form and Function of Green Complexes
5. From Tee to Fairway
6. Individual Golf Holes
7. The Beautiful and the Ugly
8. The Recreational Process of Golf
9. The Ideal Golf Course Architect

Practice

10. The Site Analysis and Feasibility Study
11. The Ideal Design Process
12. The Evolving Design Process
13. Computers, Satellites, and Image Technology
14. Economics of Course Construction
15. Plans, Specifications, and Bidding
16. Aspects of the Construction Sequence
17. Tee, Green, and Bunker Construction
18. Irrigation
19. Seedbed Preparation and Planting
20. Turfgrass Establishment and Maturation
21. Improvement Plans and Renovation
22. Golf and the Environment

Index

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