Greenskeeper

A greenkeeper is a person responsible for the care and upkeep of a golf course or a sport turf playing surface.

A professional who maintains a golf course or country club's grounds. This includes all cultural practices along with setting of pins and marking of hazards for regular club play along with tournament play. Greenkeepers work under the direction of the Golf Course Superintendent or Director of Golf Course Operations. For a greenkeeper, it is more important to have experience and capability than formal education.

Greenkeepers measure the "speed" of golf greens with a stimpmeter. The Stimpmeter is used to compare greenspeed within a facility to ensure consistency. Stimpmeter readings should not be used to compare one facility to another; many factors including design, undulation and grass type affect green speed. The tool measures how fast a green allows the golf ball to travel. A green keeper can increase the speed of the green by mowing the grass shorter, mowing more than once in multiple directions, or by topdressing the green with a small amount of fine sand to alter the putting surface.

Setting pins and tee markers is the one part of the job that differ from the job of other groundskeepers and horticulturists. Otherwise, most groundskeeping tasks are nearly the same.

Many people who have played golf, know that the hole and pin (flag) on a green are moved routinely. When setting or moving the pins on greens, a greenkeeper must think about these factors all together:

* The pin location will affect the golf course difficulty.

In most cases, the greenkeeper that sets the greens pins also moves and sets the tee markers. The tee markers are the pieces stuck in the ground that mark the line from which to tee-off or strike the golf ball. If a greenkeeper moves all the tee markers to the back of the tees and then, in addition, moves all the holes and pins to the back of the green, the accumulation of total yards to cover would be drastically increased.

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