A golf course is a wonderful thing that requires regular maintenance to keep it in the best condition for its members. Greenkeeping is a challenging job on the golf course and here we highlight some of the daily task that must be done.

The golf course is beautiful and requires daily care and maintenance to ensure it stays in top condition for many loyal members. When faced with constantly changing weather conditions and poor maintenance tasks, or landscaping, as it is called in the industry, can be a challenging but also rewarding prospect.

The diligence of the Green People

Depending on the size, standard and condition of the golf course, the number of green keepers required to maintain the course can be kept depending on that. Larger courses may have a head of green guard, supervisors and then a larger number of assistant green guards and trainees. There are a number of professional qualifications that can be completed if you want to reach the pinnacle of your career as a green keeper and training at work on your local golf course will definitely help with these things.

During the year, mowing can dominate the daily list of goalkeepers’ jobs, especially in spring and summer when the grass grows at an accelerating rate. An important aspect of any golf course is to keep the greenery in a dark state. Therefore, these will be cut daily, usually to a height between 3mm and 5mm. A three-cylinder mower with grass-collector boxes will be used for this. It is also common to cut greenery with a hand-held cylinder mower; especially on newly planted greenery or when the weather is wet they do not allow the use of riding on a lawn mower.
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Other important areas that contribute to the look of the golf course are tea boxes, green surroundings, and trade fairs. Again, these will usually be reminded by an elevator on a cylindrical lawn mower. At the fair, it is not uncommon to see this work done using a 5-band mower to cover the ground faster. The golf fairway is a large area and it is no small task to keep it in a playable condition that is typically between 12mm and 18mm. These areas will be buried about 3 times a week.

Roughly, which golfers want to avoid, they will be kicked out once a week on average. These are left longer than the fair and can sometimes be cut into first and second pieces placed at an increased height. A lawn mower will be used for this job.

With the cut under control there are some golf course jobs that are more organized. Changing holes, or pin positions, will usually be completed twice a week. This ensures that certain green areas are not worn or compacted. It also provides new challenges for ordinary golfers. Each green will also have some of the harder to access positions and these will often be reserved for the competition game.

Bunker racking and edging are also requirements. It is a good label for golfers to sweep bunkers, or sand traps, after use although this is not always the case. Driving on three wheels on a machine called a bunker rake will be used to sweep the entire bunker. It has three toothed blades on the back that you sweep over the bunker, covering a large area quickly. Hand tools will be used once a month to bunker the edge of the planted grass. Further monthly work will cover banks for water hazard for flymo-ing.

This short article covered some of the aspects of landscaping golf courses and the tasks and work discussed are performed every week to week. However, there are a number of other maintenance jobs that are performed throughout the year. This can be accomplished by a green keeper if the golf club has handy machines or by a sports field contractor. Types of maintenance will include deep tine aeration, hollow tining, earthquake, top dressing and tracking.