The golf course : planning, design, construction and management.

226 Pages·1983·6.838 MB·English

by  F W Hawtree

The Golf Course
Planning, design, construction and maintenance
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© 1983 F.W.Hawtree Library
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First edition 1983 in-Publication Data
Hawtree F.W. (Fred W.)
The golf course
ISBN 0-203-99257-1 Master e-
Bibliography:p
book ISBN
Includes index.
1. Golf course—Design and
construction.
2. Landscape architecture. I.
ISBN 0 419 12250 8 (Print
Title.
Edition)
GV975. H39 1983 796.
352’06’8 82–19143
Apart from any fair dealing for ISBN 0-419-12250-8 (Print
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Contents
Foreword viii
Acknowledgements ix
1 Introduction 1
2 Philosophy 5
2.1 The formative years 5
2.2 The Middle Age 32
2.3 Transition 38
2.4 Lessons 43
3 Planning 49
3.1 The site 49
3.2 Layout 52
3.3 Guidelines 58
3.4 Rehearsal 61
3.5 Short alternatives 64
4 Design 67
4.1 Tees 67
4.2 Putting greens 89
4.3 Bunkers 112
4.4 Fairways and rough 121
4.5 Trees 124
4.6 Water 136
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5 Construction 141
5.1 Method 141
5.2 Specification 145
5.3 Bills of Quantity 147
5.4 Drawings 149
5.5 Clerk of Works 150
6 Practical politics 153
6.1 The head greenkeeper 153
6.2 Etiquette 156
6.3 Safety 159
6.4 Furniture 160
6.5 Presentation 163
6.6 A single green 168
Appendix 1 Survey of the carry (pitch) of drives 173
carried out on behalf of the British
Association of Golf Course
Architects (B.A.G.C.A.)
Appendix 2 Length/area guide 175
Appendix 3 Green plans (Martin G.Hawtree) 177
Appendix 4 Specimen pages: Specification and 183
Bills of Quantity
Appendix 5 Tree lists 193
Appendix 6 Metric/Imperial conversions 203
Bibliography 205
Index 207
Foreword
Henry Cotton MBE
At the start, I must tell the reader that this book is a
detailed, interesting study of how to design and build a
golf course—a complex business.
The author’s father entered golf course design through
greenkeeping and in the 1920s joined up with that great
golfer, J.H.Taylor. Theirs were some of the first modern
inland courses, away from the links where Nature had
already prepared the way. I particularly remember some of
that original planning, with island greens completely
surrounded by a ring of sand-traps, obliging golfers to
approach by the all-air route and calling for nominated
shots.
The present Fred Hawtree (son of Hawtree I) and his son,
Martin, have carried on the practice of golf course
architecture, living with golf and doing their work with
skill and good taste. This book will help golfers and
officials to improve their personal ideas on layout,
especially those with low handicaps and their own
interests at heart.
There are many amateur golf course architects who seek
to alter holes they dislike; some I have known have even
become golf club officials in order to fill in a hazard which
regularly collects one of their shots. In the face of such
pressures, Hawtree courses (and they have owned one as
well as designed hundreds) are fair but never easy to
handle.
Fred Hawtree ‘knows his stuff and this book is a classic.
Portimao
January 1983
Acknowledgements
The sources of conscious quotations are, I hope, all
acknowledged in the text but some deserve special
mention.
The Game of Golf, by Willie Park Junr., (Longmans,
Green & Co, London, 1896) broke new ground as, indeed,
did his seventy odd golf courses in America and one of the
earliest combined housing and golf course developments at
Huntercombe.
Garden G.Smith’s The World of Golf (A.D.Innes & Co.,
London 1898) was also a source of much stimulating
material.
John Laing Low codified the best principles of golf course
architecture in Concerning Golf (Hodder & Stoughton,
London, 1903) and his work at Woking helped to establish
the profession.
Country Life, as the original source, kindly gave
permission to quote from Golf Greens and Greenkeeping
(Country Life & George Newnes Ltd. London, 1906).
The ‘Great Triumvirate’ contributed strong professional
views over the first half of this century. J.H.'s Taylor on
Golf (Hutchinson & Co. London, 1902) James Braid’s
Advanced Golf (1908) and Harry Vardon’s How to Play
Golf, 1912, (both published by Methuen & Co. London)
have all been of assistance.
Messrs. Suttons Seeds Ltd. were good enough to permit
quoting from The Book of the Links edited by Martin
H.F.Sutton (W.H.Smith & Son, London, 1912).
My thanks are due also to Dr Alister Mackenzie’s Golf
Architecture (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton & Co, London,