ABSTRACT
Once the master plan has been determined, detailed layouts and working drawings enable the full Specification and Bill of Quantities to be prepared. These are the essence of golf course construction. There are some who still think golf course architecture stops at the stage of a few loops on a plan indicating how eighteen holes might be arranged. But to enable a proper Specification and Bill of Quantities to be prepared, an accurate plan based on an equally accurate survey with contours at half metre or two foot intervals has to be produced and backed up by working drawings defining the form and levels of greens, tees and bunkers. The plan will be the whole basis for land drainage, earth movement and water system, even if local levels are still necessary for individual green designs. Indeed, on heavily wooded sites it is difficult for the golf course architect to move without a contoured plan prepared from an aerial survey.
