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Every asset on your golf course has a lifespan — from the greens to the tees, the bunkers to the irrigation system, and the equipment you use to maintain it all. Managing these assets and planning for their eventual replacement takes careful planning and budgeting. We talked with some of our experts to get their insights on how to go about this. Here’s what they had to say.

Spraying control products and plant protectants is an important element of an effective golf course maintenance agronomic program. To help, our experts have put together a tried and true checklist with the five most important steps to ensure your turf applications get the best results.

The season is over, the year is nearly done; time to take a deep breath and kick back, right? Wrong. Now is the ideal time to gear up for a year-end review — one that will inform your Annual Golf Course Maintenance Plan for the coming year.

Meet the top ten most tenacious weeds on golf courses throughout the United States. They invade your turf like a scourge, ruining not only the view but also the playing experience for your members and guests. If any of these offenders make an appearance on your golf course, use this guide for effective post-emergent weed control solutions.

Surprising but true — many clubs finish their playing season without using the experience as the foundation for a strong plan for the next one. However, there’s no better time to create such a plan than at the end of your peak-playing season — while challenges and successes of the season are still top of mind. Here’s how to get started.

Failure to maintain a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly communications schedule can lead to surprises—and not in a good way. The list of what can go wrong is long, but the solution is simple: Set a detailed communications schedule and stick to it. Here’s how to do it.

BrightView Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BV) (“BrightView”), the nation’s leading commercial landscaping services company, today announced that its Sports Turf Division has been named Major League Baseball’s Official Field Consultant. 

If your course is seasonal, there are about three months of downtime you can use for annual equipment maintenance. But before you run off and start planning…hang on a minute. We’re not just talking about simple fine-tuning; we’re talking about a complete overhaul. To help us understand the reasoning behind a seasonal equipment overhaul and what goes into it, we spoke with Vince Gilmartin, BrightView’s Northeast Area Director.

Thomas C. Donnelly, ASLA, President of BrightView Landscape Development, was a 2019 inductee into the Green Industry Hall of Fame, a California-based landscape organization.