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The golf course that perfectly balances the art and science of our profession is a ghostly creature found few places on earth. Commendable cases abound, but such elusiveness neither dissuades our own attempts at such a design, nor undermines our fascination.  It follows that the intersection of these 2 antitheticals was the focus of our first book, 1996's "Golf Course Architecture", hailed by Golf Digest Senior Architectural Editor Ron Whitten "the modern bible of golf course design".   Six others in this sphere have followed.

 

Dangerous Beauty of Modern Golf Course Design

The watercolor paintings of Mr. Ingwersen are presented to illustrate our thesis that the cost premium (construction, maintenance, user fees, pace of play) incurred to meet with the recent trend of hyper-beautifying (ornamenting) North American golf courses is a contributing factor in the decline of golf’s popularity.

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Golf and Law;

Golf Course Safety, Security
and Risk Management

Golf courses are complex environments blending the manicured with the natural, hosting people with different levels of knowledge and experience and subjecting them to potentially unfamiliar hazards. Golf course safety, security and risk management is a process of minimizing those threats or reducing the severity of accidents if they do happen. This book examines the process and offers practical suggestions to protect golf course employees, owners and operators. Safety should not happen by accident.

Golf Course Architecture:

Evolutions in Design, Construction
and Restoration Technology

 

When asked by the publisher to pen a second edition Dr. Hurdzan remarked “It’s only been 8 years since the first edition! How much could have changed?” As it turned out, 32 areas to be exact. Thus, this edition contains not only original content, but illustrates the rapid rate at which this dynamic profession evolves.

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Golf Greens:

History, Design and Construction

 

In response to continual and seemingly industry-wide misunderstandings of the golf green, Dr. Hurdzan attempts to demystify and characterize, based on science and personal observation, the perhaps defining feature of any golf facility – the green.

Golf Course Design:

An Annotated Bibliography with

Highlights of Its History and Resources

Inspired by Winston Churchill’s quote “books in all their variety are often means by which civilization may be triumphantly carried forward”, Dr. Hurdzan teams up with co-author, long-time friend and architectural legend Geoffrey Cornish, who began his career under the famed Stanley Thompson, to craft this illustrative work which serves as the first of its kind to establish the connection between the golf luminaries past and present and their respective writings on the subject of design.

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Golf Course Architecture:

Design, Construction and Restoration

This once 1,200 page manuscript, pared to under 500 pages with the editorial acumen of Golf Digest Senior Architectural Editor Ron Whitten, Esq., is considered by many as the “modern bible of golf course design”, a claim supported by it's publication into the German, Korean, Chinese and Czechoslovakian language.

Selected Golf Courses:

By Hurdzan /Fry

This 383-page “picture book” provides a rare, behind the scenes glimpse of the stories behind some of Dr. Hurdzan’s and then business partner Dana Fry’s finest courses – the sites, the people, the challenges and the successes. Included as a “Coffee Table Classic” on Travel + Leisure’s “The 25 Best Golf Books Ever”

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Selected Golf Courses

This 383-page “picture book” provides a rare, behind the scenes glimpse of the stories behind some of Dr. Hurdzan’s and then business partner Dana Fry’s finest courses – the sites, the people, the challenges and the successes. Included as a “Coffee Table Classic” on Travel + Leisure’s “The 25 Best Golf Books Ever”

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Building A Practical Golf Facility:

A Step-by-Step Guide to Realizing a Dream 

Endorsed by the PGA Tour, the PGA of America, the USGA, the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America and published by the American Society of Golf Course Architects, this book details Dr. Hurdzan’s time honored formula for, as the name implies, building a practical golf facility.

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