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Sheffield golf course can be divided into three categories: membership golf course, municipal golf course and park golf course, but most belong to a membership golf course.

Sheffield Park: professional golf playing against

Sheffield operated by the three municipal golf course (Graves Park, Bingham Park and Millhouses Park), in which two 9 holes (Pitch & Put Course), an 18-hole (Mini-Putting Green). Course by the Sheffield Park Service’s direct control, also known as Park. Sheffield city green area of 61%, urban owns large tracts of green belt, while the three public golf course is one of three components of the park. In addition to providing golf, parks and will also provide tennis, boating, hiking, and even safari.

Sheffield Park Service Commissioner Andy Mumford

There is no real tee, and only play mat as a “temporary tee Taiwan”

Park on the roadside on. In addition to two doors, almost all open

For starters, Park golf course is ideal for contacts. Course offer rental stroke services (1.5 pounds, only to provide a chipping and putting), 9 holes 3.5 pounds for adults, young people only need 1.5 pounds to play a holding park-year card and student card will also have special discount. Sheffield Park Service Commissioner Andy said, &quot;Municipal hope that more people come into contact with golf, especially young people. Summer, you can receive 600 people a week, most of them parents with children, couples or elderly people partnering together to come . &quot;In addition, the Park would work with local schools, communities and people with disabilities agencies, organizations related to the activities of groups of golf experience. Groups and individuals can advance by phone with the network set field. <br> <br>Park operating hours are April to September, all municipal operations from simple. Operating period, the promise of a large park with only six personal management, and 9-hole golf there is only one people, including ticketing, booking, departure, as well as services such as rental rod. Park golf course has no specific lawn Department just asked a local private club professional lawn maintenance division to do regular greens, fairway bunkers maintenance and refurbishment. In the Park there is a special provision: out of court security reasons, the players are not allowed to bring professional golf to play. Use the ball to be replaced by courses provided by the &quot;plastic ball&quot;, which is not the ball fly high and far distances to play.

Birley Golf Course

Sheffield has four municipal golf course (Beauchief, Tinsley, Birley, and Concord Golf Course), by the SIV responsible for daily operations (which should be regarded as municipal commercial courts). SIV (Sheffield International Venues) is a Sheffield venue management operators, not only managed four pitches, Sheffield Ski Village, Fitness Center, Valley City Hall and other sports as well as the scope of its operations within the jurisdiction.

Compared with Scotland, in terms of number of courses or the golf course the way they operate, England do have some lag behind. In 1870, England only 58 pitches to pitch in 1909 to 2786, but all are private membership golf course. Until the 1970s, England only appeared in public court, and to &quot;Pay-as-you-play&quot; approach to the private operator, who does not have to play a member. Since then, the golf in England officially broke through the boundaries of social class and age is no longer exclusively merchants and aristocrats movement.

In 1984, Sheffield Municipal from the hands of a private golf course operator to buy a 9-hole &quot;Pay-as-you-play&quot; golf course, redesigned and expanded and in 1989 the formal launch of the first municipal golf course. The beginning, municipal golf course has been unable to profit, while the golf course usage is not high. In 1989, the All-England&#39;s &quot;golf development program&quot; to base the promotion around the municipal golf course. Among them, Sheffield Birleys municipal golf course as a pilot for five consecutive years (1989 -1,994 years) received assistance for development projects, professional coaches free of charge 29 hours per week, Professor beginners, popularization of the year to reach 776 coach class. With the 1995 opening of Sheffield city tram, municipal golf a substantial increase in the rate of admission, operation has gradually made a small profit.

Municipal Park golf course the price of a little more expensive than the annual membership card £ 499, quarterly membership cards £ 44.99 (youth-year card £ 109, month, card £ 10.50), four courses infinitely smooth play. Non-member adults £ 16.5 18-hole holiday, young people £ 8; normally £ 13 for adults, young people £ 5; the evening before or 18 o&#39;clock before the fate of two and a half hours off the discount rate of 6.3; a student card, old card and unemployed that the enjoyment of 8 discount. Compared Park, municipal golf course features are more complete, most of them with clubs, shops, playgrounds and the Commission and teaching centers, some municipal golf course facilities, and even than some private, membership-based course should be good (and also introduced specialty cuisine). If the municipal golf course facilities and the services provided is not good, there will not repeat the.

For the origins of golf, most people are a little known, but in promoting the game of golf step forward in the development of golf courses, you have much better?

Stadium Facilities

In general the standard 18-hole golf course covers an area of 60-100 hectares. As in recent years, golf and golf-related industries, the modern golf facilities and capabilities has been further improved and diversified. Thus, today’s golf course is no longer a place where golfers play, but also a good place for leisure. Some pro-golf course with the complete set has become a local holiday attractions and tourist spots of gold.

A basic golf course, what separated the different functional areas, a golf course is mainly divided into three main functional areas: club area, fairway and lawn management areas. Each region carry out their duties, but also complement each other.

Golf course clubhouse area is central and access management, players and other guests and the first platform, take the course of entertainment and social activities; golf course fairway area is the main part of the players to play the venues; turf management zone in the fairway zone “logistics.” Ball Road District is responsible for the daily management and maintenance machinery and materials storage, is also responsible for mechanical maintenance and repair, lawn and planting experiments, and other golf course fairway to keep the lawn few fairways quality management.

Stadium Design

Golf course design and other sports venues are different, focusing on flexibility and change, not strictly fixed size requirements, as long as the basic tie the score for each hole and the total length of fairways demands can be. In the design of golf courses, generally will choose to have a natural terrain area. Therefore, an important principle of the golf course is adapted to local conditions, relying on terrain clever planning and design, make full use of the original mountains, lakes, woodlands and other landscape features, combined with the formation of the natural landscape features. Also need to consider how to increase the golf course when the degree of difficulty in the competition, and minimize land-use area. This will not only save investment, but also easy to form their own characteristics. The pursuit of individuality Al Gore is the stadium designed for a feature, so there is no two exactly the same as the world’s golf courses.

Fairway area

In the design of fairway is divided into the following areas:

1 tee

The shape of the tee no special provisions in order to rectangular, square, oval-shaped as common. Also multi-purpose semi-circular, circular, S-shaped, L-shaped and so on. – As an area of 30-150 square meters, compared with around 0.3 -1.0 m, in order to facilitate drainage and increase the visibility of those shots, cut off the surface of short grass, demands a certain stiffness and lawn smooth surface. Tee is a small, but quickly ruled out the surface of stagnant water, while the level of degree tee, generally taken at 1% -2% of the micro-slope, so as not to affect the quality of players serve.

2, the ball path design

North-south direction is the direction of a more ideal fairways, fairways usually a length of 90-550 m; width ranging from 30-55 meters, with an average width of 41 meters. Is divided into three layers, the middle known as the fairway left and right again on the floor for the short grass area, another area of long grass.

3, Green Design

A. Green Al Gore is the key to the stadium area. Each green size, shape, contour and the surrounding bunkers have different characteristics in order to create a wealth of challenging and interesting. Green lawn requires a high degree of between 5.0-6.4 cm and getting even, smooth, white ball rolling speed can be uniform.

B. Greens drainage. The surface water on the greens should be 2 or 2 more than the direction of discharge. The topography of the greens should be designed so that surface water drainage line to avoid the flow direction. A green most of the gradient should not exceed 3%, to ensure that after hitting the ball rolling direction.

C. Practice green. Practice greens are for the players to learn golf practice driving range in a special hole-shot. Practice green is usually located in high-Le-Fu Club and a tee. Holes should be able to set up 9-18 months and their replacement location. Surface, there should be a green slope, similarly to 3% is appropriate. In order to ensure the quality of the putting green turf. A golf course should be set more than 2 or 2 rotating the use of better practice greens.

4, hazard

Hazard generally pits, pools, trees, whose purpose is to punish the athletes inaccurate hit the ball out from the hazard than the much more difficult to hit the ball in the fairway.

A. Bunker. Bunker general area of 140-380 m, and some sand up to about 2,400 ㎡. Now most of the 18-hole golf course with 40-80 bunkers, according to the needs and designers play design ideas to determine. Golf course bunker should be placed in line with the natural strategy to make people think the tee to play the correct position. Usually the location of a fairway bunker to determine the distance from the tee, depending on the location of bunkers but also according to the land drainage features, bunkers have a good ground and underground drainage. And underground drainage in the low-lying full, or in the bunker under the conditions of good water seepage area. Pit can be built flat on the lawn below. From the maintenance point of view. Green side bunker should be set at a distance of 3-3.7m green lawn areas in order to build machines and to prevent the passage of the sand bunker on the wind to the lawn. Green grass-roots level within the bunker sand thickness should be at least lOcm, bunker slope or raised sand layer thickness should be at least 5cm; thick sand fairway bunker some relatively shallow. Gore Stadium sand bunker requirements more stringent, more than 75% of the sand particle size should be between 0.25-0.5mm (medium-grained sand), sand with angular grains of sand for the selection of the best, the color of sand in order to white, brown or light gray for good, but it should avoid the sand color Taebaek, resulting in unclear ball watching.

B. Pool. The pool is not only an obstacle to hit the ball, but can also play the role of a good landscaping.

Pool can be designed within a single fairway, you can also share a few fairways pool. Sometimes the ball is located in Taiwan or the green island surrounded by water, increasing the difficulty and fun shots, rich fairways landscape. Edge of a pool suitable for landscaping, can be rack bridges located Ting step, large area and plenty of water, you can plan fountains or waterfalls.

5 marks

Golf Course using the use of trees, small wooden poles and road signs as a sign of the distance to the ball Ridge, which is to enable players to hit the ball high Lefu juice calculated to find the ball when the location of planting and with makeup, and often from the green 50,100,150,200 yards (1 yard = 0.9144 m)

Planting and setting position can be planted at 50,150 yards from a single tree, small trees and small bar, in the 100,200 yards, or small tree planted two trees, so easy to judge the ball fall into the batsman green distance.

So, when you are riding again next time when the football field, try to enjoy the golf course the human landscape, feeling the detailed arrangements for the club, those well-decorated club facilities, as appropriate, a thousand times the ball Road design, are intended for dedicated golfers services, and you need to do is with feelings of pleasure and enjoy the fun of swing and play outside.

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