Golf Course Design

by Graves, Robert Muir; Cornish, Geoffrey S.

• ISBN13: 9780471137849
• ISBN10: 0471137847
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-23
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey S. Cornish are the authors of Golf Course Design, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Ronald E. Whitten
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I The Game and the Course	3	(182)
Chapter 1 The History of Golf and Golf Course Design	3	(20)
Robert Muir Graves
Geoffrey Cornish
Thomas A. Marzolf
Chapter 2 Planning the Course	23	(30)
Robert Muir Graves
Geoffrey Cornish
Ronald G. Dodson
Chapter 3 Selecting the Site and Routing the Course	53	(30)
Robert Muir Graves
Geoffrey Cornish
Chapter 4 The Design of a Golf Hole	83	(44)
Robert Muir Graves
Geoffrey Cornish
Desmond Muirhead
Chapter 5 Planning Major Changes	127	(10)
Robert Muir Graves
Geoffrey Cornish
Chapter 6 Planning the Adjacent Real Estate	137	(28)
Kenneth DeMay, FAIA
Chapter 7 Practice Facilities, Short Courses, and Cayman Golf	165	(20)
Robert Muir Graves
Geoffrey Cornish
William W. Amick
Part II Construction and Grow-In	185	(128)
Chapter 8 Constructing the Golf Course	185	(22)
Robert Muir Graves
Geoffrey Cornish
Chapter 9 Drainage	207	(18)
Robert Muir Graves
Geoffrey Cornish
Chapter 10 Golf Course Irrigation	225	(14)
James McC. Barrett
Chapter 11 Golf Courses on Derelict Land	239	(8)
William W. Amick
Chapter 12 Grassing the Golf Course	247	(30)
Robert Muir Graves
Geoffrey Cornish
John H. Foy
James Francis Moore
Norman Hummel, Jr.
Chapter 13 Turfgrass Selection for Golf Construction	277	(20)
James T. Snow
Chapter 14 Construction Methods, Equipment, and Commodities: The constructor's Viewpoint	297	(16)
W. Gary Paumen
Richard H. Elyea
Virgil Meier
Dean Mosdell
Christine Faulks
Golf Course Builders Association of America, Executive Vice President: Philip Arnold
Part III The Business of Golf Course Design	313	(64)
Chapter 15 Golf Course Financing	313	(16)
Richard L. Norton
Chapter 16 Utilizing a Team Approach to Permitting and Construction Monitoring	329	(22)
The L. A. Group
S. Jeffrey Anthony
Barbara B. Beall
Kevin J. Franke
Chapter 17 The Business of Building a Golf Course	351	(16)
Robert Muir Graves
Geoffrey Cornish
Chapter 18 Training of the Golf Course Architect	367	(10)
Robert Muir Graves
Geoffrey Cornish
Mark A. Mungeam
Appendix A The Design Codes	377	(4)
Appendix B Design Exercises	381	(10)
Appendix C Symbols for Golf Course Design	391	(6)
Resources	397	(4)
Hard-to-Find Book Sources
Turfgrass Science Textbooks
Allied Organizations and Libraries
Pamphlets and Videotapes
Electronic Resources
Bibliography	401	(6)
Glossary	407	(24)
About the Contributing Authors	431	(6)
Subject Index	437	(8)
Index of Golf Courses	445