Golf Club Consulting, Inc. can provide agronomic and grow-in services for any new golf course, no matter it's location or the stage of construction or grow-in.  

The most important agronomic issues of any new golf courses are:

• Using the correct grasses for the area.
• Using the correct greens-mix for the designed greens.
• Using the correct bunkers sand to use.
• Choosing the best water source.
• Dealing with the issues caused by the irrigation water used.
• Dealing with the issues caused by the soils used.
• Grow-in.

Dick Eide oversees all assignments involving new golf course services.   Dick is a Certified Golf Course Superintendent and has built or renovated over 10 golf courses. 

Other new course issues, we can assist with:

• “Golf Club Consulting Inc. was brought into our Silver Creek Valley (California) project to help us get a handle on the construction of the golf course.   The costs were out of hand and so were the delays.   Dick's honesty and expertise in addressing these issues resulted in reduced construction costs and an accelerated course opening.” Mark Brock Former President of Shea Homes -California ______ "Dick is a consummate professional. In designing and growing in a new golf course, it is critical that a Golf Course Architect has people on board who are not only component and extremely reliable.   Dick fits both of these categories very well."  John Fought John Fought Design Scottsdale, Arizona

  Audubon International certification

• Budgeting
• Cost control
• Course start-up supplies
• Equipment
• Fertigation
• Golf course maintenance area and building
• Grass selection
• Grow-in oversight
• Grow-in planning
• Integrated Pest Management
• Irrigation: field staking, product selection, programming
• Irrigation system design: value engineer
• Maintenance building: provide conceptual design
• Maintenance Plan
• Pre-plant fertilizer and needed soil amendments
• Quality controls
• Superintendent search and hiring
• Transition from grow-in to operations
• Value engineer

If we can help, please let us know.

Our What Do You Think? page asks questions that are helpful during golf course construction and to get an understanding of how you think compared to others.

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Golf Club Consulting, Inc.
831 Westbank Road Glenwood Springs, CO 81601
Office: 970.384.2069 | Cell: 970.618.0813
reide@golfclubconsulting.com