Golf Course Greenkeeper
A fully trained, qualified Golf Course Greenkeeper must be competent in the following:
- Monitor and maintain health, safety and security in the workplace
- Responding to emergencies
- Maintain good standards of health and safety for self and others
- Communicating effectively
- Dealing with disagreements/conflict
- Keeping management informed
- Understanding their roles and responsibilities
- Switching and brushing
- A range of mowing
- Scarifying/grooming/verti-cutting turf
- Aerating turf
- Applying fertiliser/turf conditioner
- Applying top dressing
- Repairing divots
- Irrigating turf
- Identifying and controlling weeds, pests, turf diseases and disorders
- Preparing ground to establish turf
- Establishing turf
- Identifying grasses on the golf course
- Marking of hazards, out of bounds and ground under repair
- Moving tee markers
- Maintaining bunkers
- Maintaining golf course furniture
- Changing holes
- Rolling turf
- Driving a tractor with implements
- Undertaking routine machine maintenance
- Preparing machinery for use
- Preparing machinery for storage
- Measuring green speed and interpreting the results
- The rules of golf relating to golf course maintenance
- Preparing ground to establish plants on the golf course
- Establishing plants on the golf course
- Maintaining trees and shrubs on the golf course
- Identifying plants on the golf course
NOTE: All of the above tasks must be carried out in a manner that minimises environmental damage.
