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Golf Course Architecture
Michael J. Hurdzan
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Description for Golf Course Architecture
Hardcover. Golf Course Architecture: Design, Construction and Restoration, Second Edition is the new edition to the bestselling definitive text on the art and science of golf course architecture. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations, plans. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 225 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1732.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471465317
SKU
V9780471465317
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Michael J. Hurdzan
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.
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