By Gordon Witteveen (2004). 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.

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.