| |
Web URL(s): | https://stri.lib.msu.edu/itb/articles/255-17.pdf Last checked: 10/05/2012 Requires: PDF Reader |
Access Restriction: | Certain MSU-hosted archive URLs may be restricted to legacy database members. |
Publication Type:
| Professional |
Author(s): | Beggs, Alistair |
Author Affiliation: | Area Manager, STRI |
Title: | Measuring success - the story of the 2011 Open Championship |
Section: | Golf Other records with the "Golf" Section
|
Source: | Bulletin for Sports Surface Management. Vol. 255, October 2011, p. 17-20. |
Publishing Information: | Bingley, England: Sports Turf Research Institute |
# of Pages: | 4 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Course profile; Firmness; Golf green speed; Playability; Quality evaluation; Smoothness; Soil moisture; Tournament preparation; Trueness Meter
|
Facility Names: | Royal St George's Golf Club, in Sandwich, Kent, England |
Abstract/Contents: | Discusses the 2011 Open Championship, focusing on the Sport Turf Research Institute's (STRI's) involvement with tournament preparations. States that "STRI's involvement...intensified dramatically in the year before [the tournament] as data on agronomic and playing performance began to be gathered." Details maintenance priorities, as well as measurements taken for determining the course's playability. Overviews smoothness and trueness, green speed, surface firmness, and soil moisture levels. |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
Note: | Pictures, color |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Beggs, A. 2011. Measuring success - the story of the 2011 Open Championship. Bulletin for Sports Surface Management. 255:p. 17-20. |
| Fastlink to access this record outside TGIF: https://tic.msu.edu/tgif/flink?recno=192906 |
| If there are problems with this record, send us feedback about record 192906. |
| Choices for finding the above item: |
| Web URL(s): https://stri.lib.msu.edu/itb/articles/255-17.pdf Last checked: 10/05/2012 Requires: PDF Reader |
| MSU catalog number: b8004005 |
| Request through your local library's inter-library loan service (bring or send a copy of this TGIF record) |