Golf Course Architecture, Second Edition is fully updated with more than fifty percent new material, including more than twenty-five recent innovations in the golf industry. Revealing both the art and science of golf course architecture, it takes readers inside the designer’s mind through each step to designing a golf green, golf hole, and golf course. Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of full-color photographs, course maps, and drawings, this Second Edition explains the roots of ugliness and sources of beauty in courses, how the landscape communicates, and the connection between golfers and golf courses. Golf Course Architecture, Second Edition provides a wealth of accessible and helpful information on golf course architecture chronicling every facet of designing, building, renovating, and restoring a golf course.
About the Author
DR. MICHAEL J. HURDZAN is one of America's most respected golf course designers. A past president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, he holds a PhD in environmental plant physiology studies from the University of Vermont. He has led his Ohio-based firm to design more than 250 new golf courses in North America and internationally, as well as remodel hundreds of U.S. course layouts. He is the author of the definitive book, Golf Greens (also from Wiley) and is acknowledged as an innovator in design techniques for lowering construction costs and improving maintainability of golf courses. His Widow's Walk Golf Course, Scituate, Massachusetts, was recognized as the first national environmental demonstration project for golf course development.
New to Edition
Fully updated throughout to address changes in methods of practice, the impact of environmental requirements, how to become a golf course architect, and what it takes to succeed in the profession
Addresses the influences of new turfgrasses for putting surfaces, the impact of longer hitting golf equipment, the new strategy for hazards placement, and the impact of computer technology on every aspect of professional practice
Includes coverage of emerging environmental issues related to water usage and golf courses
Features
Described as the “modern bible of golf course architecture”
Chronicles all facets of designing, building, renovating and restoring a golf course.
Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of full-color photographs, and course maps and drawings, it chronicles all facets of designing, building, renovating and restoring a golf course.
Provides a wealth of understandable and useful information on golf architecture from its earliest beginnings with Old Tom Morris to modern architectural design
Reveals the art and science of golf course architecture
Practical in nature, explaining tee, green and bunker construction, turfgrass establishment ad maturation, as well as drainage and irrigation trends and techniques
