Golf Course Development and Real Estate - Book Review,
by Muirhead, Guy L. Rando

Book Description Golf Course Development and Real Estate includes detailed how-to information about designing and building a golf course and the surrounding residential area. Full color illustrations, examples, and case studies offer insights and ideas. Topics covered include: the development process; analysis of economic viability; strategies for risk minimization; ways to increase land values, accelerate absorption, and determine costs; golf course design and land planning; pros and cons of various layouts; management of the golf business; and solutions to environmental and safety issues.
About the Author Desmond Muirhead One of the world's leading golf course architects, Desmond Muirhead has designed Mission Hills in Palm Springs, California, and Boca West in Boca Raton, Florida. The golf course at Muirfield Village that he designed with Jack Nicklaus is on most lists of the top 10 golf courses in this country. His most recent courses, Aberdeen, Stone Harbor, and Wakagi, introduced the idea of themes and signature holes with symbols. Guy L. Rando The founding prinipcal of Guy L. Rando Associates, Inc., has been responsible for the master planning and design of over 700,000 acres of golf course and planned communities, resorts, recreation projects, and institutional projects throughout the U.S. and abroad. He has received numerous awards for excellence in design and was awarded the Ralph Hudson Environmental Fellowship in support of his research, Golf Courses as Ecologic Sanctuaries. Rando is also the inventor of Point to Point Golf and a popular lecturer and teacher of golf course architecture.
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