Golf Course Maintenance Schedules 
A general estimate of the number of occasions a task might typically be carried out over the 3-months of each season, but these would only be used as an informed forward planning guide as the current sward conditions, expected standards and prevailing weather conditions will influence the actual number of occasions any work might be required.
The total time in hours has been given as a general range and this too will clearly be influenced by a range of factors, including the type of equipment being used, the skill and experience of the user, material quantities needed and calibration requi
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Golf Course Markings
Stakes, painted lines or well-defined physical features which provide a clear boundary between two areas.
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Golf Course Performance Standards (A)
1) Green speed. 2) Total (live) vegetative ground cover.
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Golf Course Performance Standards (B)
3) Bare (and decaying-dead) area. 4) Width of any individual unrepaired bare area. 5) Desirable grass coverage. 6) Undesirable grasses. 7) Sward height. 8) Root depth, and root density.
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Golf Course Performance Standards (C)
9) Thatch depth. 10) Surface evenness. 11) Weed content. 12) Earthworm surface casting.
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Golf Course Performance Standards (D)
13) Infiltration rate. 14) Fine particles (i.e. <0.125mm). 15) Soil pH. 16) Nutrient levels.
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Golf Course Performance Standards (E)
17) Pest damage. 18) Disease. 19) Surface colour. 20) Appearance due to cleanness of cut. 21) Surface debris.
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Golf Course Playing Surfaces
Golf greens should have a firm and smooth surface, which allows a golf ball to be putt and travel in the intended direction without deviation from minor surface disturbances. The green will drain well, without puddles being able to form during normal amounts of rainfall. The grass coverage should be uniform, not patchy, dense, mostly free of fine-leaved weeds and free of broad-leaved weeds, and without significant signs of pest or disease attack. Ideally the surface will be blemish free, but minor blemishes on the green from pests or disease attacks should be expected as part of a natural cycl
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Golf Course Practice Putting Green
This should be maintained to the same standard of the greens on the course.
A putting green helps golfers’ ‘warm-up’ for and ‘cool-down’ from, a round of golf and should therefore provide the same playing characteristics as the main greens so as to help golfers develop and improve their skills.
This green might have a variable number of holes cut at different times of the year. During the winter period it might be sensible to have a greater space between holes to help spread wear which cannot easily recover during this low to no growth period, with 6 to 9 holes being typical.
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Golf Course Size
Every golf course will be slightly different, but a ‘typical’ standard 18-hole might consist of 14 Par 4s and Par5s, with 4 Par 3s.
The size of features on any course can also vary significantly and this will influence the maintenance inputs, but for illustrative purposes, the 'typical' golf course is estimated as follows:
• Total area: 500,000m² (50 hectares / 123½ acres):
• Greens, including practice green/s: total size 10,000m² (2½ acres).
• Tees: 6,500m² [∼30% for winter tees / ∼70% summer tees] (1½ acres).
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