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Typically, labor and plant protectants make up the largest cost categories in any golf course maintenance program. How can you be sure you’re getting the best value for budget spent? Following these guidelines can help.

The National Golf Foundation’s 2018 Annual Report shows the sport is not only enjoying increased participation, but also an increase in the number of “non-golfers” who are interested to play on a real golf course. With competition for current and new golfers continuing to be fierce, how can you gain the advantage?  We asked our experts at BrightView Golf Maintenance to share their tips for keeping your course competitive and managing it well today and in the future.

Something as mundane as bad water had the Atlantic Beach Country Club reeling. In fact, if it wasn’t for the foresight and action-mindedness of two key club members, their beloved club was on a fast track to becoming a desert – about as far as you could get from the pristine greens and immaculate fairways that was host to their first Web.com tour event.

Staff planning is a sensitive subject and keeping your key employees employed is important. If you don’t operate efficiently, jobs are at stake and the golf course suffers. That’s why being agile and thinking ahead can work better for everybody. Here’s how.

With the industry moving toward more frequent, finely tuned applications and treatments for turf, you may be using your equipment more and in a different way. Learn how to use your equipment to its best advantage and find out if you’re properly equipped with our experts’ picks for the five pieces of specialty equipment every golf course should have. 

Golf course turf reduction is among the most effective ways you can conserve water. Unfortunately, these golf course maintenance projects can also be incredibly complex. To find out how one club did it, we talked to Mike Mutschler and Jack Stoughton, the current and recent past president, respectively, at Glendora Country Club.

Drought, abnormally dry conditions, water restrictions—the last few years have been hard on the golf industry. Undoubtedly, no matter where your course is located, you and your team are working to conserve water. To help you get ahead, we’ve rounded up our golf course maintenance experts’ top five, tried and true, water conservation solutions.

The challenge clubs face today in member and player retention and growth has been difficult to overcome. But there is a thriving, industry-leading organization that has developed a solution.

When your golf course turf suffers, you most likely re-seed or re-sod. But that’s just a Band-Aid solution—and one you’ll likely need to repeat before too long. For long-term results, you need to fix what’s causing the problem. Find out how you can effectively and efficiently save suffering golf course turf.