Author(s): Paul Daley

Sport & Fitness

A smorgasbord of courses!

Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective, Volume Three, incorporates forty-seven absorbing golf-architecture-based essays by leading golf architects and knowledgeable golf writers, supported by in excess of 350 images from notable photographers and artists.
Paul Daley has gathered a contemporary, international assessment of the golf-course architecture industry, through which its principles and practices are examined. For example, how a course routing engenders rhythm and flow; course restoration and renovation; the benefits of par-seventy layouts; if, when and how a dogleg hole is bunkered; and how a da Vincian theory helps us better understand visual stimulation, as it applies to the successful laying out of golf holes.
To complement the rich array of technical, engineering and problem-solving-based essays, readers encounter a balance of teasing, esoteric treatises. The concept of