| GOLF COURSE SERVICES: Existing Golf Courses
We offer a comprehensive golf course assessment review that is customized to the exact needs of a course. The assessment looks at the agronomic issues of the grass AND every issue of the golf course maintenance department.
Another words, our reviews include everything that affects the playing conditions of a golf course and the financial results of a golf course maintenance department.
The issues to review include:
- The goals and priorities of the owner.
- The physical aspects of the course (greens, tees, fairways, roughs, bunkers, cart paths, irrigation system, lakes & streams.
- The agronomic issues of the golf course turf (greens, tees, fairways and roughs).
- Golf course equipment, the golf course maintenance building and the associated facilities (fuel storage, pesticide mixing are and pesticide storage area).
- Existing irrigation water tests.
- Existing soil tests.
- Weather records.
- Past agronomic visit reports.
- Present cultural and fertility practices used to take care of the turfed areas.
- Present practices used to take care of non-turf areas.
- Present staffing levels.
- Present budgeting.
- The abilities of the present staff.
After we conduct a course site visit and review all of the above issues, we then provide a club with a prioritized list of recommended improvements to the golf course and the golf course maintenance department. This list is meant to improve the golf course turf AND the financial results of the golf course maintenance department.
After a golf course evaluation, follow-up support is quite important. Thus, we always provide free support (phone or email) to a golf course for a period of time after a course evaluation.
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Below are some issues of golf course maintenance that we can assist with:
1. PERSONNEL
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“Golf Club Consulting Inc. brought not only technical expertise in reviewing our Sun Valley (Idaho) golf course, but the ability to work closely with our new GC Superintendent. Dick offered sound advice without threatening the opinion or authority of the existing staff, bringing a fresh set-of-eyes and positive, useful suggestions to our course challenges.”
Ken Faux
Former VP of Golf Operations for Meristar Hotels and Doral Golf
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- Employee motivation programs.
- Employee development
- Excellence programs
- New employee orientation
- Staff meetings
2. GREENS
- Cultural practices: aerification, spiking, topdressing, vertical mowing, rolling
- Fertility applications: corrective, maintenance
- Irrigation: frequency, amount applied, water testing, syringing, techniques
- Miscellaneous: Poa annua, turf density, green speed, playability needs, soil testing, moss, cup changing, root monitoring, thatch, wetting agent use, overseeding, interseeding, weather monitoring, weeds, disease and insects.
- Mowing practices: frequency, HOC, mowers used, mowing techniques
- Pesticide use: herbicides, insecticides, fungicides
3. TEES
- Cultural practices: aerification, spiking, topdressing, vertical mowing, rolling
- Fertility applications: corrective, maintenance
- Irrigation: frequency, amount applied, water testing, syringing, techniques
- Miscellaneous: Poa annua, turf density, green speed, playability needs, soil testing, moss, root monitoring, thatch, wetting agent use, overseeding, interseeding, weather monitoring, weeds, disease, and insects.
- Mowing practices: frequency, HOC, mowers used, mowing techniques
- Pesticide use: herbicides, insecticides, fungicides
4. FAIRWAYS
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“I would highly recommend the services of Golf Club Consulting Inc. to clubs, developers or investors. Dick Eide has a thorough working knowledge of correct agronomic practices, staffing levels and operational requirements of an existing course as well as in depth ability and skills in the area of costing and executing new golf course construction.”
Dave Richey
Senior Vice President of Golf and CC
Toll Brothers, Inc.
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- Cultural practices: aerification, spiking, topdressing, vertical mowing,
- Fertility applications: corrective, maintenance
- Irrigation: frequency, amount applied, water testing, syringing, techniques
- Miscellaneous: Poa annua, turf density, playability needs, soil testing, moss, root monitoring, thatch, wetting agent use, overseeding, interseeding, weather monitoring, weeds, disease, and weeds.
- Mowing practices: frequency, HOC, mowers used, mowing techniques
- Pesticide use: herbicides, insecticides, fungicides
5. ROUGHS
- Cultural practices: aerification, topdressing, vertical mowing,
- Fertility applications: corrective, maintenance
- Irrigation: frequency, amount applied, water testing, syringing, techniques
- Miscellaneous: Poa annua, turf density, playability needs, soil testing, moss, root monitoring, thatch, wetting agent use, overseeding, interseeding, weather monitoring, weeds, disease, and insects.
- Mowing practices: frequency, HOC, mowers used, mowing techniques
- Pesticide use: herbicides, insecticides, fungicides
6. BUNKERS
- Daily care: raking frequency, techniques used, equipment used, weeding, lip maintenance
- Long-term care: edging, sand distribution, drainage issues
- Management: standards, planning, sand used, irrigation watering
7. CART PATHS
- Daily care: weeding, edging
- Lon-term care: edging, drainage issues
- Management: standards, planning
8. IRRIGATION SYSTEM
- Daily care: sprinkler adjusting, maintenance, sprinkler leveling, programming system maintenance
- Long-term care: adding or removing heads, renovations
- Management: standards, planning, observing
9. PUMPING STATION
- Preventative maintenance
- Repairs
10. WATER SOURCES
- Managment: standards, planning, observing
- Quality monitoring
11. MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT
- Preventative maintenance
- Repairs
12. ENVIRONMENTAL
- Audubon International Certification
- Communication
- Composting
- IPM
- Pesticide storage
- Recycling
13. CLUBHOUSE GROUNDS
- Standards
- Planning
- Maintaining quality
14. GOLF COURSE GROUNDS BEAUTIFICATION
- Standards
- Planning
- Maintaining quality
15. TREES
- Standards
- Pruning
- Planning
- Maintaining quality
16. LANDSCAPE AREAS
17. LAKES & STREAMS
- Standards
- Observing
- Maintaining quality
18. BUDGETING
19. RECORDKEEPING
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If you wish to discuss a course evaluation, please CONTACT US.
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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
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