The Golf Course Maintenance course is designed to lay the foundation of knowledge of the most common maintenance practices carried out on a golf course.

The main aim of this course is to provide students with information and reasons these practices are carried out and their effects on the presentation and playability of the golf course.

During this course we will cover the following maintenance practices, discuss how best to manage and maintain healthy playing surfaces and introduce nutrition and irrigation as part of an integrated golf course maintenance plan.

Maintenance Practices:

• Mowing
• Rolling
• Hole Changing
• Scarification, Verticutting and Vertigrooming
• Aeration
• Top Dressing
• Overseeding
• Bunker Maintenance
• Reinstatement and Recovery of Surfaces
• Introduction to Nutrition
• Introduction to Irrigation

At the end of the course you will have achieved the following outcomes.

Outcome 1 - Identify and describe a range of equipment, machinery, materials and products used in the maintenance and renovation of a golf course.

Outcome 2 - Use and operate a range resources to assist in the maintenance and renovation of a golf course in accordance with current health and safety requirements.

Outcome 3 - Identify and describe a range of common golf course turf problems and how these problems and their effects can be reduced or controlled.

Outcome 4 - Prepare accurately a basic annual golf course maintenance and renovation programme.

You are expected to follow the lectures in order and will be required to watch 90% of the videos before you can advance to the next lecture.

Good luck, and enjoy!

Note: You will not be tested in the ‘Course Completion Assessment’ on the content of the below video(s). We are sharing it as further background information for you.