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    Grounds for Golf: The History and Fundamentals of Golf Course Design
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    Grounds for Golf: The History and Fundamentals of Golf Course Design
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    Grounds for Golf: The History and Fundamentals of Golf Course Design

    By Geoff Shackelford and Gil Hanse

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    Golfers dream of playing the legendary courses of the game: St. Andrews, Augusta National, Pinehurst, Pebble Beach. And anyone who has played the royal and ancient sport is an armchair architect at heart. From alterations for their home course to visions of their very own backyard dream course, most golfers would love to test their hands at course design.

    What makes certain courses timeless? Unlike the venues of other popular recreational sports like tennis and racquetball, whose playing fields are bound by strict measurements that do not vary, each golf course is unique. Offering an endless topographical variety, from short to long, flat or hilly, wet or dry, every course represents a compelling blend of risks versus rewards, with decisions and challenges to test every golfer's game and mental toughness.

    Combining Geoff Shackelford's informative narrative with detailed illustrations by architect Gil Hanse, Grounds for Golf explains the fundamentals of golf course design in an understandable and entertaining style. Modern photographs, anecdotal sidebars, and witty quotations augment a course design primer that will enhance readers' enjoyment of golf's lore while introducing the fundamentals of course design. By explaining the golf course from the ground up, Grounds for Golf will not only help readers in their understanding of the game, but will help their games themselves.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 24, 2003
    ISBN9781429964234
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    Grounds for Golf: The History and Fundamentals of Golf Course Design
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    Geoff Shackelford

    Geoff Shackelford is the author of several golf books, and his writing has appeared in Golf Magazine, Links, Golf World, the Los Angeles Times, and Golfdom magazine. While writing Grounds for Golf, Shackelford codesigned Rustic Canyon Golf Course in Moorpark, California, with Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner. Golf Digest recently named Rustic Canyon the Best New Affordable Public Course in America. Geoff lives in Santa Monica, California.

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      Well written book and very appropriate for me to read. I am reading it while working at LeoPalace Resort-Guam which has holes that were designed by arnold palmer and Jack Nicklaus. Each paragraph that I have been reading is as if to tickle me pink and they are so funny. The words are most excellent for what goes through my mind while golfing. Clint Huntington