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| Publication Type:
| Popular |
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| Material Type: | Book |
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| Monographic Author(s): | Strawn, John |
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| Monograph Title: | Driving The Green: The Making of a Golf Course, 1991. |
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| Publishing Information: | New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers |
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| Edition: | 1st |
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| # of Pages: | 352 |
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| Collation: | viii; 344 pp. |
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| Evaluative Review: | Appears in The New York Times, June 9, 1991, by Witold Rybczynski.
Appears in The Journal of the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects, v. 3, December 1999, p. 32, by Neil Crafter.
Appears in Greenkeeper International, August 1991, p. 41 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Golf courses; Golf course design; Golf course construction; Course profile; Personal profile; Case studies; Golf courses in the environment; Golf courses in the landscape; Golf course siting
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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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| Geographic Terms: | Florida |
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| Abstract/Contents: | Includes: 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); The Design (Fine Lines in Toledo, Dilemmas of Eminent Domain; Prelude to Conflagration; and Dasher and Dubsdread); and 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: | 0060166592 |
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| ISBN-13: | 9780060166595 |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also 1st HarperPerennial edition, 1992, R=152770. R=152770
See also later edition, 1997, R=129070. R=129070 |
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| See Also: | Other items relating to: DESIGN |
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| Note: | Figures
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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 narrative on the development and construction of the Ironhorse golf course in Florida. It is a unique nontechnical book." p. 435 |
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| Beard Section Heading: | Specialty turfgrass books/monographs: Turfgrass management books (mostly nonagronomic) |
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Annotation from
Golf Course Design,
by Geoffrey S. Cornish and Michael J. Hurdzan: | "A descriptive non-fiction work detailing the trials and tribulations of an owner and his architect, the celebrated Arthur Hills, in bringing the development of Ironhorse Golf and County Club in Florida to a successful conclusion. Having spent months at the site before and during construction, Strawn, a historian and former Reed College professor, produced a realistic, stranger-than-fiction account of what is involved in course planning, permit acquisition, and construction. It narrates the story of the design and construction of a residential community course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Author Strawn says he was a fly on the wall during the planning, design and construction process, events scheduled for twelve months that eventually would stretch over two and a half years, a not atypical trajectory in a process made steadily more complicated by regulatory requirements. Strawn conducted extensive interviews with the course architects, Arthur Hills and Mike Dasher, the developers, Alan Sher and Josh Muss, the land planners, the lawyers, the bureaucrats in the permitting agencies, and the contractors. The heavy equipment operators and the laborers are also central to the story, which is told from the bottom up as well as the top down. Strawn examines the history of course design in the United States, from the early, somewhat casual style of laying out a course employed by Scottish golf professionals to the university-trained design professionals of the present. Driving the Green also considers the history of turfgrass development. Bermudagrass turf made golf in the South practical, helping create the historic population shift to the Sunbelt, and the evolution of the profession of golf course superintendent. Wadsworth Golf Construction built Ironhorse, which opened in 1990. Company founder Brent Wadsworth, profiled in Driving the Green, is the Henry Ford of the golf course construction industry. He was not the first course builder, but he did create the contemporary model for course construction, and his influence saturates the business he pioneered." p. 100-101 |
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| Cornish & Hurdzan Ratings: | F2; D4; C3; H4; P2 |
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| Quotable quotes | "In the golf world, the eighties were an era of accelerating expectations -- better designs, better irrigation, better grasses, better maintenance, and a demand for courses so high that a job in the golf business was a ticket on the gravy train. And nobody in golf -- not the developers, not the course builders, not the superintendents, not even the professional players -- had a more self-satisfied and lucrative attachment to the golf boom than the architects." p. 8
"The process of getting a golf course from the drawing board to the tee shots of the first happy foursome is difficult not merely because of the physical demands of the work but because the political and financial setting is complex and laden with hazards as difficult as any ever designed by Hills." p. 18 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Strawn, John. 1991. Driving The Green: The Making of a Golf Course. 1st. ed. viii; 344 pp. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers. |
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