Grass Roots Management

Sometimes in the turmoil of managing a golf club or resort its all too easy to see Monday turn into Friday without getting to grips with anything substantial that can make a real difference to our profitability. Its easy to get caught up in the plate spinning of daily details and to run out of time to deal with your top 3 biggest strategies; the strategies that will really propel you towards greater success.

Golf is also a business steeped in tradition and ironically its very easy for new traditions to take hold that we simply “must” adhere to, usually at great expense.

One of the biggest taboos in golf is getting to grips with the greenkeeping function. Greenkeeping is the single largest cost heading at any club, but a lot of that expenditure goes unchallenged from year to year.

To try to tackle some of the more pressing issues such as spiralling greenkeeping costs and the effects of climate change and design on revenues and costs, I’ve started a new site which aims to look in more depth at the critical and very practical issues facing golf clubs in the UK today.

The site can be found at www.golfcourseturnaround.co.uk I would welcome your input. If any of you have points or comments to make on the issues discussed on the new site or indeed on this one, I’d be very pleased to hear from you.

To our industry’s continued improvement, John