Theyare also one of the few areas of the golf course for which there areobjective measurements of quality. Golf green quality is proposed∗Corresponding author.E-mail addresses: sbrown@myerscough.ac.uk (S. Brown),alan.coday@anglia.ac.uk (A. Coday), ian.frame@anglia.ac.uk (I. Frame).by Emmons (1995) to be the most important factor by which play-ers judge golf course “quality”