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Golf Designer James Wilcher director of Golf By Design is pleased to reveal the secret for the perfect golf game: a holistic golf course design built around his fourth dimension concept.
The concept emphasizes beauty as well as the critical importance of proper consideration and placement of every aspect of the golf course landscape.
That means texture, grass colour, bunker style and depth and complete integration of the vertical landscape must be considered.
More specifically, a great golf course design should include these elements:
Golf by Design Creates Courses For All Levels
Regardless of handicap, everyone should be able to enjoy a good golf course. That means the course can’t favour one kind of player or another. Achieving this involves thoughtful hazard placement, tee location options, fairway widths, rough depth and green design including size, shape and slope.
Such strategic golf course design elements should not be obvious but rather something only revealed after repeated play. Golf by Design strategic development encourages repeated visits to fully experience the course.
Textural Diversity
Diversity of textures enhance the playing appeal and presentation of a well-designed golf course.
Like subliminal messages that convey the course’s character and interest, textures should be nurtured and developed. Textural diversity is crucial to the playing dynamics of the course as well as its environmental appeal and aesthetic.
Sustainable Golf Course Management
Long after the design phase is complete, a golf course remains as a gift to future generations. More than ever before, environmental sustainability is an issue that must be considered.
Today’s great golf courses are carbon positive and incorporate solid environmental practices to make them increase in value to their target audience over time. Golf by design team achieves through carbon footprint mapping during the planning, design, development, construction and maintenance phases of the project.
Management Of Site Biodiversity
James Wilcher lists efforts to ensure a biodiverse and healthy site include:
• ground and surface water management to the highest standard, including water usage planning, rainwater harvesting, runoff and wastewater recycling and water filtration.
• buffer zones between the course and significant ecological areas like wetlands, forests and other treasures,
• preservation, enhancement and management of natural waterfront areas,
• preservation, enhancement and management of native wildlife habitats,
• proper turf grass selection for the area and its usage,
• good soil management and erosion control measures designed to prevent soil loss and degradation,
• energy conservation,
• management of air and noise pollution,
• protection of sensitive receptors,
• staff and player education about the important of preserving and protecting the site and its surroundings,
• design of top-of-the-line facilities for handling hazardous chemicals and wash downs so that contamination is eliminated,
• and much more.
Golf by Design competent designer complement and improve upon the course site and its surroundings rather than detract from it. They work with the landscape rather than in opposition to it.
If a site has few natural amenities and is constrained by commercial objectives or flood control issues, for example, the best designers are able to apply strategic and creative design concepts like those outlined in this fourth dimension concept.
An experienced designer like James Wilcher from Golf by Design can create a natural oasis that satisfies everyone’s needs and adds beauty to the area for decades to come.
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Please note, Golf by Design book is not published by James Wilcher
Dr. Bob Rotella is one of the hottest performance consultants in America today. Among his many professional clients are Nick Price (last year's Player of the Year), Tom Kite, Davis Love III, Pat Bradley, Brad Faxon, John Daly, and many others. Rotella, or "Doc," as most players refer to him, goes beyond just the usual mental aspects of the game and the reliance on specific techniques. What Rotella does here in this extraordinary book, and with his clients, is to create an attitude and a mindset about all aspects of a golfer's game, from mental preparation to competition.
The most wonderful aspect of it all is that it is done in a conversational fashion, in a dynamic blend of anecdote and lesson. And, as some of the world's greatest golfers will attest, the results are spectacular. Golfers will improve their golf game and have more fun playing. Some of Rotella's maxims include:
* On the first tee, a golfer must expect only two things of himself: to have fun, and to focus his mind properly on every shot.
* Golfers must learn to love 'the challenge when they hit a ball into the rough, trees, or sand. The alternatives -- anger, fear, whining, and cheating -- do no good.
* Confidence is crucial to good golf. Confidence is simply the aggregate of the thoughts you have about yourself.
* It is more important to be decisive than to be correct when preparing to play any golf shot or putt.
Filled with delightful and insightful stories about golf and the golfers Rotella works with, Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect will improve the game of even the most casual weekend player.
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* On the first tee, a golfer must expect only two things of himself: to have fun, and to focus his mind properly on every shot.
* Golfers must learn to love 'the challenge when they hit a ball into the rough, trees, or sand. The alternatives -- anger, fear, whining, and cheating -- do no good.
* Confidence is crucial to good golf. Confidence is simply the aggregate of the thoughts you have about yourself.
* It is more important to be decisive than to be correct when preparing to play any golf shot or putt.
Filled with delightful and insightful stories about golf and the golfers Rotella works with, Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect will improve the game of even the most casual weekend player.
Price: $24.99