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Material Type: | Book |
Monographic Author(s): | Cornish, Geoffrey S.; Whitten, Ronald E. |
Monograph Title: | The Architects of Golf: A Survey of Golf Course Design From Its Beginnings to the Present, with an Encyclopedic Listing of Golf Course Architects and Their Courses, 1993. |
Publishing Information: | New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. |
Edition: | First |
# of Pages: | 656 |
Collation: | viii, 648 pp. |
Related Web URL: | https://books.google.com/books/?id=HER0NQAACAAJ Last checked: 06/03/2019 Notes: Item description page; Variant year: 1981 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-architects-of-golf-%3A-a-survey-of-golf-course-to-Cornish-Whitten/a4c03220500e173c7773cc97772ae08ab0e69c3e Last checked: 07/01/2019 Notes: Item description page http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780062700827.pdf Last checked: 06/03/2019 Requires: PDF Reader Notes: Table of contents https://books.google.com/books?id=WlQ3AQAAIAAJ Last checked: 06/03/2019 Notes: Item description page |
Evaluative Review: | Appears in Greenkeeper International, December 1993, p. 15, by David White. Appears in GreenMaster, 28(4) August/September 1994, p. 38, by Dennis Mellersh. |
URL to Search Item: | https://books.google.com/books?id=WlQ3AQAAIAAJ Last Checked 06/03/2019 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Golf course design; Golf course architects; Golf courses; History
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Abstract/Contents: | Includes: Preface; Mother Nature; Old Tom and Others; The Heathlands Quartet; The Emigrants; The Pioneers in America; The Pennsylvanians; The World Travelers; A Changing of the Guard; The Trent Jones Era; The New Breed; The Pete Dye Influence; The Special Few; Profiles; A Master List of Golf Courses Cross-Referenced to Designers; A Glossary of Design Terms; The Evolution of Course Features; Parallel Developments in Allied Fields; Architects' Association; Organizations and Libraries; Acknowledgments; and Index. |
Library of Congress Subject Headings: | Golf courses -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- History; Golf courses -- United States -- Design and construction -- History; Architects -- Biography; Golf courses -- Design and construction -- History; Architects; Golf courses -- Design and construction; Architekt; Architektur; Golfplatz; Camps de golf -- Gran Bretanya -- Història; Camps de golf -- Estats Units d'Amèrica -- Història; Golf -- Història |
ISBN: | 0062700820 006016834X |
ISBN-13: | 9780060168346 9780062700827 |
Language: | English |
References: | 88 |
See Also: | See also related book, The Golf Course, 1981, R=220. R=220
See also related book, The Golf Course, 1984, R=40219. R=40219
See also related book, The Golf Course, 1987, R=178043. R=178043
See also related book, The Golf Course, 1989, R=306437. R=306437 |
See Also: | Other items relating to: Golf Course Design books (recent) |
Note: | Spine title: The Architects of Golf "A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of The Golf Course" "Originally published as The Golf Course in 1981 by the Rutledge Press. Reprinted by arrangement with the authors." Drawings Portraits Pictures, b/w |
Annotation from Turfgrass History and Literature: Lawns, Sports, and Golf, by James B Beard, Harriet J. Beard and James C Beard: | "A major revision, expansion, and updating of the author's 1981 book,The Golf Course. It consists of a narrative of golf course design from its beginnings to the present, followed by a unique encyclopedic listing of golf architects and their courses plus a photograph of each architect. A third section consists of a listing of 12,000-plus golf courses worldwide and the architects who designed them. A must book for collectors of golf books. There is a list of selected references in the back." p. 440 |
Beard Section Heading: | Specialty turfgrass books/monographs: Architecture and planning of turfgrass facilities |
Beard Scope of Content Note: | Identified by James B Beard in Turfgrass History and Literature: Lawns, Sports, and Golf (2014) as containing chapter(s) or section(s) on turfgrass but addressing a broader array of subjects than just turfgrass. |
Annotation from Golf Course Design, by Geoffrey S. Cornish and Michael J. Hurdzan: | "An update of The Golf Course with additional text, new architects, updated course lists and biographies, professionally organized master course list and useful appendices. The best single reference source for the industry, with an accumulation of information not available elsewhere. A cornerstone of the golf course architecture library." p. 59 |
Cornish & Hurdzan Ratings: | D3; H5; P5 |
Quotable quotes | "The feast of the 1920s and famine that followed in the 1930s clearly demonstrated to architects that the most magnificently designed course would not remain magnificent for very long when adequate funds were not available for upkeep." p. 100 |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Cornish, Geoffrey S. 1993. The Architects of Golf: A Survey of Golf Course Design From Its Beginnings to the Present, with an Encyclopedic Listing of Golf Course Architects and Their Courses. First. ed. viii, 648 pp. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. |
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