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| Material Type: | Book |
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| Monographic Author(s): | Doak, Tom |
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| Author Affiliation: | President and Principal Designer, Renaissance Golf Design, Traverse City, Michigan |
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| Monograph Title: | The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, 1996. |
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| Publishing Information: | Chelsea, Michigan: Sleeping Bear Press |
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| # of Pages: | 366 |
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| Collation: | v, 361 pp. |
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| Related Web URL: | https://www.doakgolf.com/history-of-the-confidential-guide-to-golf-courses/
Last checked: 02/25/2021
Notes: "History" of the book
https://books.google.com/books?id=ghEFAAAACAAJ
Last checked: 02/18/2019
Notes: Item description page |
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| Evaluative Review: | Appears in Golf Course News, 8(6) June 1996, p. 29, by Mark Leslie.
Appears in The Journal of the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects, vol. 1, October 1997, p. 20, by Neil Crafter. |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Golf; Golf courses; Golf course design; Golf course architects
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| Abstract/Contents: | Includes: Photographic Credits; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Doak Scale of Course Ratings; The Gourmet's Choice: 31 Favorite Courses; Directory of American Courses (New England; Mid Atlantic; Southeast; Florida; Great Lakes; Great Plains; Rocky Mountains; and Pacific Coast); Directory of International Courses (Canada; The Islands; Central and South America; Scotland; England; Wales; Northern Ireland; Ireland; Continental Europe; South Africa; Japan; Australia; and New Zealand); The Doak Gazetteer: Eclectic Eighteens; and Index to Courses. |
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Library of Congress
Subject Headings: | Golf courses -- Directories; Golf courses |
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| ISBN: | 1886947090 |
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| ISBN-13: | 9781886947092 |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 12 |
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| See Also: | See also earlier draft edition, [1989], R=300147. R=300147
See also earlier [private] edition, 1994, R=127565. R=127565
See also later edition, The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses: Volume 1 - Great Britain and Ireland, 2014, R=250426. R=250426
See also later edition, The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses: Volume 2 - The Americas (Winter Destinations), 2015, R=250428. R=250428
See also later edition, The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses: Volume 3 - The Americas (Summer Destinations), 2016, R=250429. R=250429
See also later edition, The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses: Volume 4 - Europe, Middle East and Africa, [2017], R=250430. R=250430
See also later edition, The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses: Volume 5 - Asia, Australia and New Zealand, 2018, R=250432. R=250432 |
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| Note: | Spine title: The Confidential Guide
Maps
Pictures, color
Tables |
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| Annotation from Turfgrass History and Literature: Lawns, Sports, and Golf, by James B Beard, Harriet J. Beard and James C Beard: | "A book in which the author evaluates the merits and undesirable aspects of those golf courses which he has personally visited around the world. He summarizes the evaluations by means of a rating from 1 to 10 with a 5 value being well above average. Included is a Gourmets Choice of the 31 golf courses that are the authors favorites. Also presented is the Doak Gazetteer, consisting of lists in which golf courses are ranked by the top 10 for a diversity of characteristics." p. 441 |
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| Beard Section Heading: | Specialty turfgrass books/monographs: Architecture and planning of turfgrass facilities |
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Annotation from
Golf Course Design,
by Geoffrey S. Cornish and Michael J. Hurdzan: | "Opinions on the merits of courses around the globe, in the eyes of a course architect who also served for a few years as architecture editor for Golf Magazine. Doak visited nearly a thousand courses. His opinions are fascinating to designers who yearn to know what others think about their work, for better or worse, and to others." p. 64 |
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| Cornish & Hurdzan Ratings: | D2; H2; P1; T5 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Doak, Tom. 1996. The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses. v, 361 pp. Chelsea, Michigan: Sleeping Bear Press. |
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