Golf Course Maintenance and Agronomy: Existing Golf Courses
It's more than just grass. It's the foundation of your business.
Golf Course Maintenance is always the largest expense of any golf facility and always the least understood.
Too often, people think of Golf Course Maintenance as just watering and mowing grass. It is a multi-faceted business that requires many specialties and skills.
The list below illustrates the many issues involved in taking care of a golf course:
- Audubon International certification
- Chemical use and storage
- Cultural practices (aerifying, brushing, topdressing and vertical mowing)
- Environmental issues (drainage, ground water protection, IPM)
- Equipment (needs, use of, maintenance and care)
- Fertility
- Financial (budget and efficiency of spending)
- Golfer desires
- Irrigation (coverage, programming and care of)
- Mowing practices
- Ownership
- Past problems
- Personnel (budget, efficiency of, supervision, hiring and firing)
- Recordkeeping
- Soils
- Standards of facility
- Thatch
- Turf pests (disease, weeds, moss, insects and nematodes)
- Water used
The following is a list of common problems that we can address:
- Audubon International certification
- Budgeting
- Dry or wet areas
- Fertility
- Green speed
- Irrigation programming
- Lost turf
- Opportunities for improvements
- Pests (disease, weeds, insects and nematodes)
- Problem turf areas
- Soils
- Staff evaluation
- Stressed areas
- Superintendent search and hiring
- Water used
If your need is long-term, we offer proven strategies and solutions through our Partnership Consulting program. This program offers affordable expertise to solve golf course problems and maximize the potential of your facility.
If your need is short-term, contact us to review your concerns.
Visit our What Do You Think? page. It asks questions about taking care of your golf course and is a great tool to get an understanding of how you think compared to others.
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