Advanced Golf Greenkeeper
The person supervising golf course greenkeepers must be a competent golf course greenkeeper and must also be competent in the following:
- Promote, monitor and maintain health, safety and security of the work areas
- Promote, monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self, team and others
- Carry out risk assessments
- Respond to accidents and emergencies
- Holding team meetings
- Communicating information to staff, management and golfers
- Briefing teams
- Allocating work and supervising the greenkeeping staff
- Training staff
- Develop their own skills and manage their time
- Survey, collect and record data on the golf course environment
- Report on the condition of the golf course environment
- Promote good environmental practice
- Supervising construction/renovation projects
- Estimating resource requirements and programme work
- Supervising turf maintenance
- Planning and ensuring the maintenance of a golf course in accordance with the golf course policy document
- Supervising the preparation of machines for use
- Supervising the maintenance of machines
- Supervising the preparation of the machines for storage
- Operate and maintain irrigation systems
- Maintain drainage systems
- Planning and managing the control of weeds, pests and disease
- Prepare, establish and maintain grass swards
- Using IT
