Review
"expecting good things from Forrest Richardson...he is already the biggest name in Golf Course Architecture." (Golf Digest, November 2002)
"Casual writing style that keeps the reader engaged, and he generously sprinkles anecdotes drawn from professional experiences throughout the book." (Landscape Architecture, May 2003)
Review
"expecting good things from Forrest Richardson...he is already the biggest name in Golf Course Architecture." (Golf Digest, November 2002)
"Casual writing style that keeps the reader engaged, and he generously sprinkles anecdotes drawn from professional experiences throughout the book." (Landscape Architecture, May 2003)
Book Description
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; programming; and financial, psychological, and strategic game considerations. This nuts-and-bolts information is balanced with anecdotal, real-life experiences from guest essayists such as land planner Gil Martinez, environmental psychologist Dr. Edward Sadalla, and golf course architect Arthur Jack Snyder. Also featured is an interview with longtime professional golfer and broadcaster Peter Oosterhuis, who also provides the foreword. This book is divided into four key parts. "The Opening" begins with a brief history of routing, including the influence of St. Andrews, and continues with insightful examinations of the components that make up different courses. "Making the Turn" contains chapters on essential routing information such as the "rules" of routing, safety considerations, and methods for fitting holes together. "The Heart of the Course" explores the hands-on process of creating routing plans and is enhanced with words of wisdom from renowned golf course architects Pete Dye, Jay Morrish, Dr. Michael Hurdzon, and many others. In the final section, "The Finish," coverage includes the use of GIS in routing, presenting routing plans, and design changes that may lie ahead for golf courses. A unique look at the Cypress Point Club rounds out the reading.
Book Info
Forrest's book will not only inspire and inform a potential golf course architect, planner, or developer, but also will help all golfers better understand and appreciate the layout of any course they might play.
From the Inside Flap
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, pioneers such as Allan Robertson and Old Tom Morris introduced a human touch to golfs playing board by purposefully laying out golf courses. Whereas fairways, hazards, and greens had until then been left to the forces of nature, these men began creating them out of the landscape. Courses were routed in ways other than "going out and coming in," as had been the trend in the earliest links layouts. The development of golf courses would be forever changed. A consciousness of golf course design emerged, and with the opening in 1911 of the National Golf Links, designed by Charles Blair Macdonald, the science of golf architecture took another landmark step on an ever-evolving quest for the "ideal golf course." Routing the Golf Course continues this great tradition. Filled with advice, tips, strategies, and problem-solving techniques from some of the leading figures in golf course 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; programming; and financial, psychological, and strategic game considerations. This nuts-and-bolts information is balanced with anecdotal, real-life experiences from guest essayists such as land planner Gil Martinez, environmental psychologist Dr. Edward Sadalla, and golf course architect Arthur Jack Snyder. Also featured is an interview with longtime professional golfer and broadcaster Peter Oosterhuis, who also provides the Foreword. This book is divided into four key parts. "The Opening" begins with a brief history of routing, including the influence of St. Andrews, and continues with insightful examinations of the components that make up different courses. "Making the Turn" contains chapters on essential routing information such as the "rules"of routing, safety considerations, and methods for fitting holes together. "The Heart of the Course" explores the hands-on process of creating routing plans and is enhanced with words of wisdom from renowned golf course architects Pete Dye, Jay Morrish, Dr. Michael Hurdzan, and many others. In the final section, "The Finish," coverage includes the use of GIS in routing, presenting routing plans, and design changes that may lie ahead for golf courses. A unique look at the Cypress Point Club rounds out the reading. Routing the Golf Course is an invaluable book for landscape architects, golf course architects, land planners, civil engineers, golf course superintendents, course developers, and builders and owners, as well as golf enthusiasts and club historians.
Back Cover Copy
"This work will surely become recognized as the most complete study of an oft overlooked attribute of a golf course. Forrest Richardson carefully blends core information, historical references, personal experiences, enlightening interviews, and much of the wisdom of Jack Snyder–his mentor and inspiration.... Forrests book will not only inspire and inform a potential golf course architect, planner, or developer, but also will help all golfers better understand and appreciate the layout of any course they might play." —From the Foreword by Peter Oosterhuis
About the Author
FORREST L. RICHARDSON, ASGCA, is a golf course architect and President of Forrest Richardson & Associates, a golf course design and planning firm in Phoenix, Arizona. For twenty years he has evaluated sites for golf courses, created routing plans, and developed golf courses from blueprint to reality. His work has extended from the United States to Russia and from eighteen-hole layouts to small-scale remodeling projects.
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