Reference Quantity: ST0209
Particulars of normal
Occupation:
Golf Greenkeeper
Period of Apprenticeship:
An apprentice commencing on a golf course would usually take 24 months to finish their schooling and coaching. Nevertheless, this perhaps diminished if an apprentice has already gained information and expertise engaged on a golf course or a sports activities turf facility.
Entry Necessities: Entry necessities can be decided by particular person employers however usually potential apprentices can have a minimal of 5 GCSE’s at Grades A-D (together with Maths and English and Science) or different equal vocational {qualifications}. Employers, who recruit apprentices with out the above ranges of {qualifications}, must guarantee they obtain stage 1 in English and maths as a part of their Apprenticeship.
Introduction:
A Golf Greenkeeper is chargeable for the upkeep, care and general look of a golf course consistent with employer’s necessities. It’s their job to keep up a very good high quality enjoying floor and make sure the course gives a constant problem and an gratifying expertise for golfers.
There are 4 key turfgrass areas on a golf course – greens, tees, fairways and areas of tough, every of which requires a unique sort of upkeep. Utilizing a spread of apparatus and equipment safely and competently will play a serious half inside an apprentices coaching programme. Golf Greenkeepers can even be concerned in hazard, environmental and ecological operations which can embody bunker upkeep, planting turf, bushes, shrubs and creating wildlife habitats. The talents required to turn out to be a reliable greenkeeper can be acquired while engaged on the golf course.
By the tip of the programme, the apprentice will know when, how and why the vary of upkeep operations are carried out.
The profession as a Golf Greenkeeper can take you wherever the sport of golf is performed. Working open air in a wholesome atmosphere and as new nations are embracing the game and extra golf programs are being constructed, there isn’t any higher time to contemplate becoming a member of this nice occupation.
Upkeep Abilities:
A Golf Greenkeeper should be capable to:
- Keep good requirements of well being and security for self and others
- Making ready the golf course for play which is able to embody eradicating early morning dew and particles from the greens, raking bunkers, transferring tee markers, reducing new holes on greens
- Making ready and utilizing tools and equipment to keep up and renovate all turf surfaces inside the golf course, together with the usage of tractors, ride-on machines, and specialist tools
- Apply turf remedies to assist produce high quality enjoying surfaces, together with fertilisers and prime dressing
- Utilizing a wide range of built-in strategies to regulate weeds, fungal illnesses, pests and turf problems
- Keep and renovate bunkers and different hazards equivalent to water options
- Keep drainage and irrigation programs
- Making ready floor to ascertain turf and vegetation when sustaining, renovating and setting up golf course options
Data and Understanding:
A Golf Greenkeeper should perceive the next technical information:
- Establish their position in monitoring and sustaining well being and security inside the office
- Identification of quite a lot of grasses, weeds, pests, illnesses, turf problems, vegetation and bushes
- The first points of soil and plant biology to incorporate the method of germination – photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration
- The ideas of mowing and machine upkeep and their operation
- The necessity and implications of rolling, verti-cutting, scarification and aeration
- The methods for controlling weeds, pests, illnesses and turf problems
- How fertilisers, prime dressing and chemical substances have an effect on enjoying surfaces
- How course upkeep practices have an effect on the atmosphere
- Primary info expertise
- Concentrate on the significance of the Guidelines of Golf and golf course etiquette
- Recognise the significance of environmental and ecological finest observe
- The operation of irrigation, drainage programs and their upkeep
The Behaviours of a Golf Greenkeeper:
Golf membership employers are very buyer centered and require their apprentices to have a set of non-public expertise and behaviours that may guarantee success of their present and future roles as a person and in assembly the corporate’s goals and goals.
The behaviours required by golf membership workers can be:
- Have a powerful work ethic together with satisfaction in work, consideration to element, integrity and time administration
- Have a versatile constructive perspective to work
- Capacity to work as a lone employee and as a member of a workforce
- A willingness to be taught and contribute to their very own persevering with skilled growth
- Having a security mindset for self, colleagues and golfers
- A transparent and efficient communicator who can use a wide range of communication strategies to present/obtain info precisely and in a well timed and constructive method
- Drawback fixing and efficient resolution making
Skilled Recognition and Profession Development:
This commonplace is recognised by the British & Worldwide Golf Greenkeepers Affiliation (BIGGA), the Skilled Physique for Greenkeepers. At first of the apprenticeship the apprentice can be registered with BIGGA. Upon completion of this commonplace the apprentice can be eligible to hitch BIGGA as a full member and turn out to be a BIGGA Accredited Greenkeeper.
The profitable apprentice can have the chance to progress on to a better stage apprenticeship commonplace.
Job alternatives can even be enhanced for these apprentices who’ve accomplished the programme with promotion to extra senior positions inside a golf membership facility or the choice to progress by working in different sports activities amenities equivalent to a Grounds Upkeep Operator/Technician.
Nominal Stage:
2 reviewed after 3 years
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