How Staffing Challenges are Changing Golf Course Maintenance
Course maintenance departments are struggling to hire and retain staff. Superintendents are adjusting by streamlining maintenance, investing in equipment and prioritizing what matters most.
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The golf hole needs to be at least a quarter inch larger. Balls have gotten larger but the hole size has stayed the same size almost 200 years.
It's tough to keep your head above water working at a golf course. The pay isn't enough paying rent, other bills
( car , car insurance food etc …)
why am i watching this, i need to get to work
If courses wanted to retain people then they’d have to start people closer to $20/hr with set pay increases. It’s pretty simple. People move on because they can barely make rent.
I believe all golf courses should proudly a public display the souls who keeps the course alive on a daily display… ❤️🙏
People don't want to work, the current wage market doesn't equate to the rapid rate of inflation also.
Offer people more than minimum wage. Theres a reason most of the groundskeepers are kids still living at home. Seasonal work that you barely make enough to pay rent and buy food so you still have to find another job for the winter.
People have no idea what goes on behind the scenes at a golf course……..only certain positions make the real money.
Hey so we start at 5am in CA. It's dark it's cold most days. We wear headlamps in order to see. And walk 6 to 12 miles daily before 930 depending on the job. We walk mow greens and sand traps. Among other jobs such as blow cart paths, set gopher traps…. and we are going as fast as we can from 5 to 930 in order to not be caught by golfers.
We only make 18 an hour. If we are lucky. Which doesn't cover rent. (At least the weed is free tho) and we are not getting a raise. We work 10 days in a row having every other weekend and Wednesday off.
And I even have a degree in Turfgrass management.
Did I mention that at alot of places. We are not allowed to play golf, and even when we can we are considered second class to the proshop employees and even the cart barn guys. Which by the way make 16 an hour. But most days at anytime u can find at least of the guys asleep in the cart shed.. the others on the phone chillin…
when actually none of the proshop or cart barn guys could do what we do. We kethe course looking sharp, and keep it alive. As we get older our bodies start to break down. I'm 37. I've been doing it almost 20 years…
And to be honest we are short staffed by almost half. But we can't find guys to work. Except the illegals… but they a got ran off recently.
I don't do it for the money. I just like thel job and my boss is super chill. And because I love to play golf. I have a a passion to go above and beyond and making things perfect.
It's sad becwe can't keep people. My boss probably makes 120+ the assistant probably 65$ and the mechanics probably 65000. But the rest of us are sub 20)$ and that's in the Bay area where everything is stupid expensive
A tree fell on our guy the other day. .. he want walk for a while if ever.
Our job is extremely dangerous I know people who have flipped the mower and died
I hope somethingchanges. Nobody want itits hard to find wor and the pay ducks
I gotta go…