Description: The complete guide to the history, design, and construction of golf greens. An internationally recognized authority on golf course environmental issues, Dr. Michael Hurdzan has compiled more than forty-five years of observations, experiences, training, testing, and learning to present this groundbreaking book – Golf Greens: History, Design, and Construction.

Golf Greens offers a hands-on resource to the design, construction, and history of all types of golf greens.
- Provides highly illustratative coverage, with a sixteen-page, full-color section featuring shots of old and new greens, greens under construction, and newly finished greens.
- Provides guidelines for determining best construction methods--with special emphasis placed on site-specific concerns.
- Covers turfgrass selection with detailed information on artificial turf.
- Shows how design can be used to make greens fast or slow to match player and course expectations.

A valuable resource for golf course architects, golf course superintendents, irrigation specialists, turfgrass specialists, golf course owners and builders, real estate/golf course developers, and landscape architects.