Golf “
I think the industry is going from
strength to strength, there are lots of opportunities around the globe to get involved in varying aspects of managing or working on a golf course
nominal code.
Cosby Golf Club is situated in South many golf courses, it started as a nine hole layout before further land was purchased to extend the course to eighteen holes in the 2007. The course measures 6474 yards from the medal tees with a par 71 and consists of greens are just under a hectare in size, with the tees and approaches taking up 1 hectare. The fairways, which were reshaped last season to ensure that players are rewarded rest of the land is maintained as semi-rough or amenity rough.
The greenkeeping department has four other team members, Mike Laheen (42) has
this year. Myself and Mike trained together at Lingdale Golf Club from 2007-2013. Joe Ashdown (34) joined Cosby in 2016 as an Assistant Greenkeeper, having worked in greenkeeping/grounds maintenance for work ethic with him. Neil Green (22) began recently completed his level 2 Greenkeeping Plant (37) has been a member at Cosby for twenty-four years and in 2016 joined the Greenkeeping team.
We do not employ a workshop technician. Mike carries out most of the machinery maintenance and he is self-trained, from building up a vast skill set through his ten years of greenkeeping, to become a very talented mechanic in his own right. The other lads are encouraged to try to diagnose and repair breakdowns to help increase their own skills.
We complete all our own servicing in-house.
priority, as without it we cannot maintain the course to the standards we wish. To help maintain the life span of the machines, they are serviced as close as possible to the manufacturer’s guidelines. The shed are machines that I simply couldn’t live without. We aim to keep the blades regularly sharpened to help maintain plant health, therefore reducing disease risk. We usually get through around three sets of blades a season on the greens mowers, which may fungicide then it will have saved us money in the long run whilst making us more the maintenance. Unfortunately, members do not always realise that a morning maintaining equipment is as vital as being out working on the course.
gardeners within the club. The club have several volunteers that help to run Opens and decorate the clubhouse and would be severely stretched if we were required to complete these works alongside our
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