Practical Golf Course Maintenance: The Magic of Greenkeeping, Second Edition / Edition 2

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Overview

This newly revised edition of the original best seller has hundreds of helpful tips that you can use every day! Practical information, presented in a step-by-step format, includes critical, up-to-date advice on maintaining consistent bunkers, sand topdressing and aerifying, using pesticides and fertilizers safely and effectively, irrigation principles and techniques, mowing techniques for greens, fairways, and tees, and much more. The authors have given seminars all over the world, and now they are passing on their considerable expertise to you, including the latest on the use of emerging technologies.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780471475828
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 12/30/2004
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 7.24 (w) x 10.16 (h) x 0.79 (d)

Meet the Author

GORDON WITTEVEEN started the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association in 1965 and served as its first secretary. A past recipient of Golf Course Management magazine's Leo Feser Award, he started The Green Masters magazine and served as its editor for five years, and continues to write regularly for several magazines.

MICHAEL BAVIER has been superintendent at the Inverness Golf Club in Palatine, Illinois, for the past thirty-five years. During his career, he served as president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America. He is a frequent speaker on the Turf Conference Tour, both in North America and overseas, often presenting with Gordon Witteveen "The Magic of Greenkeeping" seminar to wide-ranging audiences.

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Table of Contents

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Cutting Greens.

2. Cutting Tees.

3. Fairways.

4. The Rough.

5. Sand Bunkers and Their Maintenance.

6. Water.

7. Fertilizer.

8. Topdressing.

9. Aerating, Spiking and Verticutting

10. Spraying.

11. Flagsticks and Tee Markers.

12. Drainage.

13. Seeding, Sodding and Sprigging

14. Golfer Traffic and Paths.

15. Rules of Golf that Affect Maintenance

16. Trees 

17. Landscaping 

18. Managing People.

19. Budgeting for Tools and Machinery

20. The Turf Care Center.

21. Greenkeeping Common Sense

22. Job Descriptions

Index.

About the Authors.

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