Unless you are an avid golf fan, player or watcher, you likely have little appreciation for everything that is required of the sport. Most folks don't realize there is some very stringent golf education that is required for successful professionals to compete at the highest levels of the business as well as the game.
All it took for me to have a greater appreciation of the care and maintenance of the playing field was to work a couple of summers as a teenager under the tutelage of the golf course operator. It was during this time that I began to better understand the subtleties associated with coaxing the grasses to bend a certain way, or the fine art of watering and raking sand traps. Without this level of creative massage, a course would be nothing more than a long walking driving range with holes interspersed here and there.
Those 3 summers I received the best education in golf course maintenance that no money could buy. I was working with a world class horticulturist on a championship course designed by some of the brightest minds in the game of golf. Add to this the quality of the club and its members, and it's no wonder I decided to become a golf professional as well.
Monday, June 15, 2009
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That's a great story. I recently watched the US Open. The speed they got the course ready was amazing and really makes you appreciate the golf maintenance crews.
Ya, I watched that too. Without them, the whole thing would probably have been cancelled. But they got it all together.
My grandpa was a golf enthusiast, and knew everything there was to know about golfing, golf maintenance, you name it. I can see where your story is coming from, it's a great thing to experience.
I was never around golf early in my life. Stories like this really make we wish I had. One of the most mental games in the world is a great thing to experience from every direction at all ages.
I wish I had done something like this. I wasted my teenage years. This would have been very productive for me haha
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