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Managing your Golf Course

Operating a successful and sustainable golf course is reliant upon a detailed understanding of your business model. This means being fully aware of your target audience, their desires and expectations. Once this is understood, you can effectively plan for how to best use the resources you have available and how you can monitor you success in meeting these needs.

  • What golfers want

    Are golfer’s expectations of your course realistic?

  • Managing for healthy grass

    Implementing basic turf management principles gives reliability and performance.

  • Assessing progress

    You need to routinely monitor playing surfaces to ensure optimum performance.

  • Generating income

    Giving golfer’s a great experience, whatever your circumstances, will generate revenue.

  • Optimising machinery

    Make the most of your machinery by identifying your real needs.

  • Using materials

    Formulating a management policy will ensure you buy the correct materials in the right quantities.

  • Managing personnel

    Get the most from your greenstaff by giving them direction, purpose and ownership.

  • Designing your course

    Changes to any course need to be carefully thought through, appreciating their impact on play, maintenance and the environment.

  • Golf and your community

    Be aware of your social responsibility and engage with your community.

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