Best Golf Course Management Practices – Second Edition

 

Golf courses are continually increasing in number, as well as sophistication in terms of design, management, and increased scrutiny from the general public and regulatory agencies. Golf course management quality and intensity range from very low-maintained facilities to exquisite, highly maintained courses which host major tournaments. Many resort courses rely on the tourist industry; however, on other courses, membership and daily fees are relied on, meaning that the year-round condition of the course becomes very important.

This second edition of Best Golf Course Management Practices is intended as a reference guide for superintendents, assistants, club managers, greens committee members, students and regulatory agencies.

The hard cover book, which stretches well beyond 850 pages, provides information and tips on growing turf with minimum inputs, and included are chapters on best turfgrasses for golf courses; preventing and managing environmental stresses; golf course design and maintenance considerations for environmentally friendly turf; pest management; and irrigation water quality and quantity. The latest research and applied trends on pest control, soils, and solid amendments, fertilisers and fertilisation strategies, drainage, greens construction, and bentgrass/Poa and couchgrass management are also included.

New chapters have been included that address budget and personnel management, the latest updates on integrated pest management (IPM) strategies and procedures as well as revised photographs.

The author, Bert McCarthy is professor of horticulture specialising in turfgrass science and management at Clemson University, South Carolina.

His other works include co-authoring the Color Atlas of Turfgrass Weeds and Managing Bermudagrass Turf. For his latest offering, McCarty is joined by a host of fellow contributing authors including Fred Yelverton, Tim Murphy and Jeffery Higgins.