Routing The Golf Course

Complete with essays and interviews with leading experts, this comprehensive guide presents strategies for creating a golf course routing plan, with coverage of site evaluation, terrain, natural settings, sunlight, wind, finances, psychology, golf strategy and environmental conditions.

A key book for the golfer's library, exploring the intricacies of golf architecture--and how this knowledge can improve your golf game.

The first history of Minnesota's celebrated golf clubs and courses, including rarely seen photographs and long-lost details about the game's most famous architects

Anthology of writings, articles, stories and collectives from golf course architect, Forrest L. Richardson. The book traces his early love for golf, golf design and his professional career. Included are spreads about Arthur Jack Snyder, his mentor, and other courses, opinions and perepectives.

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.

Some Essays on Golf-Course Architecture features selected writings from prominent architects of the early 20th century, H.S. Colt, C.H. Alison, and Dr. Alister MacKenzie. Written in 1920 during the height of their careers, this collaborative guide provides rare insight into the methods and philosophies they used to design and construct the world’s most renowned golf courses. Inside this classic of golf literature, the authors detail how they approach each element of golf course design, from placing hazards to utilizing a site's natural beauty. Along with their first-hand narrative, all of the original photos and sketches have been included, ensuring that every element of the first edition has been carefully preserved. This book includes 19 black-and-white photographs and 4 hand-sketched diagrams, including rare photos of Pine Valley and Longniddry during construction. Also included is a preface by H.S. Colt and two new appendixes highlighting the career achievements of Colt and Alison.

"The routing of a course is the most important part of its design, but the hows and whys of doing it are not well understood, even by those who have played many of the world's best courses. Never before has a golf course architect explained, in detail, why he put the golf holes where he did. In Getting to 18, I cover the routing of my first 18 courses from High Pointe in Michigan through the completion of Barnbougle Dunes and St. Andrews Beach in Australia. The oversized (123 183 book includes topographical maps of every property, photos of the raw land and finished courses, and a thorough explanation of the decisions made in the design process. The book includes incredible photographs, sketches and original correspondence - plus beautiful course maps and drawings. If you love golf architecture and want to understand it at a deeper level, there is no other book like this one."--Author's description.