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Golf course design

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 turfgrass selection to planning, financing, construction, and environmental considerations. The text features hundreds of photographs and illustrations, plus design exercises, design code details, a glossary of design terms, and an annotated bibliography
Print Book, English, ©1998
J. Wiley, New York, ©1998
xii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780471137849, 0471137847
37567366
Foreword / Ronald E. Whitten
pt. I. The Game and the Course. Ch. 1. The History of Golf and Golf Course Design / Robert Muir Graves, Geoffrey Cornish and Thomas A. Marzolf. Ch. 2. Planning the Course / Robert Muir Graves, Geoffrey Cornish and Ronald G. Dodson. Ch. 3. Selecting the Site and Routing the Course / Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey Cornish. Ch. 4. The Design of a Golf Hole / Robert Muir Graves, Geoffrey Cornish and Desmond Muirhead. Ch. 5. Planning Major Changes / Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey Cornish. Ch. 6. Planning the Adjacent Real Estate / Kenneth DeMay. Ch. 7. Practice Facilities, Short Courses, and Cayman Golf / Robert Muir Graves, Geoffrey Cornish and William W. Amick
pt. II. Construction and Grow-In. Ch. 8. Construction the Golf Course / Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey Cornish. Ch. 9. Drainage / Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey Cornish. Ch. 10. Golf Course Irrigation / James McC. Barrett. Ch. 11. Golf Courses on Derelict Land / William W. Amick. Ch. 12. Grassing the Golf Course / Robert Muir Graves, Geoffrey Cornish and John H. Foy [and others]. Ch. 13. Turfgrass Selection for Golf Construction / James T. Snow. Ch. 14. Construction Methods, Equipment, and Commodities: The Constructor's Viewpoint / W. Gary Paumen, Richard H. Elyea and Virgil Meier [and others]
pt. III. The Business of Golf Course Design. Ch. 15. Golf Course Financing / Richard L. Norton. Ch. 16. Utilizing a Team Approach to Permitting and Construction Monitoring / The L.A. Group / S. Jeffrey Anthony, Barbara B. Beall and Kevin J. Franke. Ch. 17. The Business of Building a Golf Course / Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey Cornish. Ch. 18. Training of the Golf Course Architect / Robert Muir Graves, Geoffrey Cornish and Mark A. Mungeam
App. A. The Design Codes
App. B. Design Exercises
App. C. Symbols for Golf Course Design