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| Publication Type:
| Popular |
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| Material Type: | Book |
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| Content Type: | Club history |
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| Monographic Author(s): | Strawn, John |
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| Monograph Title: | Driving the Green: The Making of a Golf Course, 1997. |
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| Publishing Information: | New York, New York: Lyons and Burford |
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| # of Pages: | 351 |
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| Collation: | xii, 339 pp. |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Golf course design; Golf course construction; Permitting; Golf courses in the environment; Wetlands; Golf course siting; Case studies; Golf courses; Golf courses in the landscape; Course profile
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| Facility Names: | Ironhorse Country Club, in West Palm Beach, Florida |
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| Subjects' Names: | Hills, Arthur |
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| Abstract/Contents: | Includes: Part I - The Deal (The Button King in the Garden of Eden; Walkabout; The Genius of the Place; Be Careful Where You Aim That Sucker; and Flight of the Bird Lady); Part II - The Design (Fine Lines in Toledo; Dilemmas of Eminent Domain; Prelude to Conflagration; and Dasher and Dubsdread); and Part III - The Dirt (The Fires This Time; Two Steps Forward, One Step Back; The Ever Popular Field Adjustment; Mixing All Day; Desperate for Dirt; The Bunker Imbroglio; An Exotic Impasse; Green at Last; and A View of Ironhorse from Arthur Hills). |
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Library of Congress
Subject Headings: | Golf courses -- Florida -- West Palm Beach -- Design and construction -- Case studies |
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| ISBN: | 1558215557 |
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| ISBN-13: | 9781558215559 |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also earlier edition, 1991, R=26103. R=26103
See also 1st HarperPerennial edition, 1992, R=152770. R=152770 |
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| Note: | Figures
Includes "Afterword: Ironhorse Revisited"; "January, 1997", p. 335-339. |
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| Annotation from Turfgrass History and Literature: Lawns, Sports, and Golf, by James B Beard, Harriet J. Beard and James C Beard: | "A reprinting of the 1991 edition with a new afterword." p. 435 |
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| Beard Section Heading: | Specialty turfgrass books/monographs: Turfgrass management books (mostly nonagronomic) |
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| Quotable quotes | "The perfectly manicured lawn -- the Augusta National look -- reached its apogee in the early nineties, and has since retreated, leaving in its place, like glacial till, an assortment of features collected from a variety of landscapes." p. 336
"What astonished me, however, was the number of readers who thought Ironhorse was an imaginary place, and Driving the Green a work of fiction... I tried to tell a story, but one that was thoroughly based on accurate reporting -- nothing in Driving the Green was invented, and it confused me to think that anyone could regard it as made-up." p. 336-337 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Strawn, John. 1997. Driving the Green: The Making of a Golf Course. xii, 339 pp. New York, New York: Lyons and Burford. |
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