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| Material Type: | Book |
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| Monograph Title: | Aspects of Golf Course Architecture I: 1889-1924, 1998. |
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| Volume Editors: | Hawtree, Fred |
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| Publishing Information: | Worcestershire, England: Grant Books |
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| # of Pages: | 183 |
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| Collation: | xi, 172 pp. |
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| Series Editors: | Grant, H. R. J. |
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| Evaluative Review: | Appears in The Journal of the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects, vol. 3, December 1999, p. 32, by Neil Crafter. |
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| Abstract/Contents: | Includes: Introduction; The Story So Far...; Horace G. Hutchinson: 1859 - 1932 (How to Layout a Links & How to Preserve Them); Willie Park Jr.: 1864 - 1925 (The Laying Out of a Golf Course); Garden G. Smith: 1800 - (c. 1925) (The Making and Keeping of Golf Courses); J. H. Taylor: 1871 - 1963 (The Best Hole); John L. Low: 1869 - 1929 (There is Hardly Such a Thing as an Unfair Bunker); Harry Vardon: 1870 - 1937 (The Construction of Courses); H. S. Colt: 1869 - 1951 (Treatment and Upkeep of a Golf Course on Light Insland Soil); C. K. Hutchinson: 1877 - 1941 (The Formation and Placing of Hazards); James Braid: 1870 - 1950 (The Character and Planning of Teeing Grounds and Putting Greens); W. H. Fowler: 1856 - 1941 (Golf at Westward Ho! Hints as to Golf Course Construction); Dr. Alister MacKenzie: 1870 - 1934 (Military Entrenchments); F. G. Hawtree: 1883 - 1955 (Designing and Constructing Golf Courses); Sir Guy Campell: 1885 - 1960 (Course Construction and Greenkeeping); Reginald Beale F.L.S. (Tees, Greens, Bunkers, Contracting); and T. P. Cooke (A Maker of Golf Courses: An Interview with C. D. Harris). |
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Library of Congress
Subject Headings: | Golf courses -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- History Golf courses -- Design and construction; Golf courses -- Maintenance -- History; Landscape architecture -- Great Britain |
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| ISBN: | 0907186270 |
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| ISBN-13: | 9780907186274 |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also 22 chapter records from this work (most are reprints and partial reprints) ; search for the records as MCODE=AGCA1 in Power Search, or: see records related to AGCA1 |
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| See Also: | See also volume II, Aspects of Golf Course Architecture II: 1924-1971, 2008, R=133525. R=133525 |
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| Note: | A book of reprints, with supplemental commentary.
Includes "Publishers acknowledgements" by Bob and Shirley Grant, p. viii
Includes "Postscript"; p. 170
"An Anthology Assembled and Annotated by Fred Hawtree"
"Published in a limited edition of 675 copies of which the first 75 copies are the Woodstock Edition"
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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: | "An anthology of selected writings from 15 pioneering golf course architects of Scotland and England for the period from 1889 to 1924. A brief introduction to each article is presented by Fred Hawtree. Published as a limited edition of 675 copies, with the first 75 copies being the Woodstock edition." p. 442 |
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| Beard Section Heading: | Specialty turfgrass books/monographs: Architecture and planning of turfgrass facilities |
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Annotation from
Golf Course Design,
by Geoffrey S. Cornish and Michael J. Hurdzan: | "Edited by H.R.J. Grant. Hawtree has compiled and annotated the best short writings on the subject by early British golf professionals, designers and writers starting with Horace Hutchinson's treatise in the 1889 Golfing Annual concerning establishment and maintenance of courses. Photographs and sketches of early maintenance equipment are shown. Hawtree's work provides a ready reference, in essay form, of many important British authors and course architects." p. 73 |
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| Cornish & Hurdzan Ratings: | D4; C2; M1; H5; P3 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
1998. Aspects of Golf Course Architecture I: 1889-1924. Hawtree, Fred (ed.) xi, 172 pp. Worcestershire, England: Grant Books. |
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