Essential Greenkeeping Equipment: Must-Have Tools for Grounds Maintenance Success

Managing golf course green maintenance takes care and dedication. If you don’t have the correct greenkeeping equipment, it can be hard to attract and retain players to your golf course, as you don’t have the facilities and the services that players are looking for. It’s therefore vital that you have the correct greenkeeping equipment at your disposal to keep up the daily work and maintenance that is required for a high and consistent standard of play. 

Course maintenance equipment for golf courses

Here are some of the most important pieces of equipment that groundskeepers require to maintain healthy turf and consistent play on golf courses. 

Mowers

The provision of mowers is the first thing that you must take care of when maintaining a golf course. It’s important to have more than one mower, as there are different types that are suitable for different parts of the course. This includes a golf green mower, a tee mower, an approach mower, a fairway mower, a rough mower, a triplex mower or a walk-behind mower. There are different factors to help you decide, such as the size of the course, the atmosphere, the type of turf and grass, the usage, and the location.

Utility vehicle

A robust utility vehicle helps you to move staff and greenkeeping and other golf course turf care machinery to different parts of the site. This is useful for the safe and speedy movement of people, tools, and parts, and makes it much easier to delegate and track maintenance around different parts of the course.

Blowers

Handheld and backpack blowers are crucial as they allow ground staff to remove any leaves, grass cuttings, and debris from the field of play. Staff should be assigned blowers to carry with them for daily tasks. That way, whenever they come across any leaves or debris, it can be instantly removed from the golf course.

Bunker machines

Bunker machines are a fast and effective way to maintain golf course bunkers. It helps to rake the bunkers across the course, redistribute the sand and fix any washout that has taken place if you have had rain in the area.

Turf iron

Constant cutting of grass can cause strain to the turf. On rest days, rolling the greens instead of using a turf iron helps to promote healthy turf and ward off potential diseases. Rolling greens also allows you to slightly raise the height of the cut without diminishing the speed of the greens.

As you can see, there are different types of greenkeeping equipment and turf management techniques that assist you in maintaining a high standard of greens and the rest of a golf course. As the budgets for golf course maintenance increase, and the standard expected by players grows, it’s important that you have access to the latest greenkeeping equipment and turf management techniques to attract and retain players and to promote fair and consistent play where every ball rolls and plays true.