Resources

You probably take care to drive your car safely, and ensure you don’t leave the stove on when you depart home. These are common-sense precautions we all take to avoid the scary consequences. When it comes to your course, why not do the same? Protect your crew, your club, and the people who enjoy it by steering clear of these common safety blunders.

The "Idea of the Day" is simply the tendency of clubs to take the path of least resistance when ideas, many of which involve changing the course or its play, are raised at club or board meetings. Before you know it, the project takes off like a plane without a pilot. Why is it so bad to act on what might seem like a good idea? Because ideas that are not in line with your long-term goals can interrupt the continuity and flow of the course.

It may seem like a daunting task, but there are hidden savings to tap into. We find that many courses are spending 5 to 10 percent more on their golf course maintenance annually than is really necessary to maintain high-quality and consistent conditions. Reinvesting those savings in your course can go a long way to staying out of the zombie zone.

Playing on a golf course with a mower nearby can ruin the day for any golfer. Noise, distraction, slow play, and obvious safety hazards are just a few of the reasons why strategic scheduling around peak play makes sense. To help you accomplish this, BrightView has outlined three best practices for smart scheduling your course maintenance.

Working together with Kurt Buxton, Vice President of BrightView Design Group, Squaw Creek’s farm-to-table vision soon became a reality. In addition to his design expertise, Buxton was well versed in sustainable agriculture and particularly in hydroponics, a soil-free method of growing plants in sand or gravel that recycles water and saves nutrients that normally leach through soil.

For more than 15 years, BrightView has partnered with the city of Anaheim to help maintain their two 18-hole municipal golf courses. When the economic downturn hit, Anaheim called BrightView to help them reduce operating costs, while maintaining the level of excellence their golf community had come to expect.

The economy may be strengthening, but challenging times still exist for the golf industry. To find out how one top club is not just surviving, but thriving in this competitive environment, we talked to Frank Benzakour, General Manager at the Village Club in Sands Point, N.Y.

Palm Beach County operates multiple golf courses, each of which has unique conditions, and all of which compete with other nearby golf facilities. By auditing play at each course, BrightView was able to recognize a pattern.

Roseville hired BrightView and Sports Restaurants, Inc., to help run its golf course maintenance and club operations (dining/pro shop), respectively. Thanks to a master communications plan proposed by BrightView at the outset, the partnership between all three entities has been a success.