Golf Course Design (Academy Editions)

Book Description
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 experience and their popular golf course design seminars held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and nationwide for the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, Graves and Cornish share a wealth of expertise on all aspects of design and construction in this outstanding book. Golf Course Design covers all of the major historic, aesthetic, business, and technical issues of the subject-- from course layout, hole design, drainage, irrigation, and turf-grass selection to planning, financing, construction, and environmental considerations.


The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
Golf course construction is burgeoning in the US and worldwide. Since 1990, an average of more than 350 new or expanded courses have opened annually in the US, and 1,600 course are planned or under construction. This book covers all aspects of golf course design and construction.


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Noting that golf courses are about the only sport playing field without standard dimensions and shape, introduces the context and parameters for designing a course that is exciting to players, easy on the maintenance budget and crew, and an asset to the environment and community. Experienced designers explore such aspects as selecting the site and routing the course, drainage, selecting turfgrass, financing, and training the golf-course architect. Includes a glossary without pronunciation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


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