What is Greenskeeper?

Greenskeeper is a gardening professional who specializes in the care and maintenance of golf courses. While Greenskeepers are very similar to other gardeners and landscape painters, some of their duties are unique to the golf course, which means that many of them are familiar with the history and rules of golf. Greenskeepers work for country clubs or golf courses, usually under the supervision of the maintenance head. In addition to maintaining grass, Greenskeepers, they also usually work on the surrounding landscaping and also manipulate things like traps for sands, bunkers and ponds. Water maintenance is often an important part of the work of Green for the Greens, Greenskeeper also sets flags and tags; The flags are regularly moving for different tournaments and keeping the course challenging. This means that they must understand the rules of golf and be able to follow the instructions from the designer of the playground. When Greenskeepers work on the Greens, players usually bring the right to travel to allow Greenskeeper to make changes as needed if GreEnskeeper does not indicate that it is advisable to continue and play.

People who want to work in this area usually take training in field and gardening areas to learn how to spread golden courses and take care of them. They can also play or study golf to have a greater depth of understanding what is involved in the care of the golf course. The Greens must also be ready to spend a lot of time outside and work with heavy equipment are, for example, lawn mowers and cutters.

Some people who start as Greenskeepers can become a playground designers and decompose their own golf courses. Their experiences such as Greenskeepers and the knowledge of the game are useful in the course design because they can spread interesting, dynamic, demanding and beautiful courses that are pleasant to play and organize them facilitating them.