Golf course design

Author: Robert Muir Gray (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-02-22
Features: This book introduces the basic content and parameters of golf course design, using illustrations and descriptive text to outline how to create an exciting, commemorative, and sustainable golf course. Golf does not have strict size and standard regulations for courses. Anyone who has designed a golf course (or has ever played golf) must have their own ideas about what a golf course should look like. It is precisely the diversity of golf courses themselves that constitutes one of the reasons for the allure and enduring popularity of golf. And for this very reason, golf course design has become one of the most appealing professions among all occupations. This book introduces the basic content and parameters of golf course design, using illustrations and descriptive text to outline how to create an exciting, commemorative, and sustainable golf course. Golf does not have strict size and standard regulations for courses. Anyone who has designed a golf course (or has ever played golf) must have their own ideas about what a golf course should look like. It is precisely the diversity of golf courses themselves that constitutes one of the reasons for the allure and enduring popularity of golf. And for this very reason, golf course design has become one of the most appealing professions among all occupations.