By Keith McIntyre, Mark Parker and David Warwick

Book covers in depth :

# Budget considerations
# Designing a golf green
# Sand profiles for greens
# Perched water tables and the capillary fringe
# Selecting the correct sand
# Designing the drainage for greens and bunkers
# Designing the irrigation for the green
# Planning the sequence of construction
# Setting out the green and surrounds
# Stripping and shaping the surrounds
# Shaping and building bunkers
# Shaping the base of the green
# Installing sub-soil drains into a green
# Placing the gravel layer on the green
# Placing the sand layer on the green
# Installing the irrigation
# Establishing grass on the green
# Oxygenating greens with the Turfair system


“Keith McIntyre has a BSc. Hons. From the University of New England and a MSc. from the Australian National University and has 30 years experience in sportsturf. He was at the city Park’s Technical Services Unit (TSU) in Canberra, a specialist group working in the technical management of open space, from 1977 to 1995. Keith headed up the group working in turf management soils, drainage and irrigation. He is now a turf management consultant. TSU built up a reputation for excellence in cool season turf management and irrigation but its most important contribution was in the field of sportsground construction, soils and drainage.”

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