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Originally Posted by MrChip72
The developer should follow in a common theme they go by and create their own golf maintenance company. They could take advantage of the huge economies of scale involved in owning specialized equipment that might only be used once a month on each course.
I honestly don't know how some of the smaller muni courses up north can maintain fairly good conditions just using a small team of seasonal golf maintenance workers and limited equipment.
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The way it's usually done Mr.Chip, is either a "sharing" among friendly, nearby courses or out-sourcing certain specialized work.
For example, the club I belong to up north, is a stickler for conditioning. We're probably one of the best conditioned courses in NH. In September of last year, we aerated the entire golf course, greens, tees & fairways. We sub-contracted that work out, to a large firm that could do the entire job in 3 days, which minimized "down time" for the members. My entire premise, is given the concentration of golf courses here in TV, a single-source maintenance operation, could afford the best equipment and personnel, as the equipment and people would be utilized every day.
A friend of mine, was an Assistant Professional at the Robt. T. Lynch golf course, in Brookline, MA. This course is located next to the famed The Country Club. When the public course superintendent needed a specialized piece of equipment, he'd walk next door and borrow it from TCC ... they had everything, cost was no object. They actually borrowed one piece of equipment years ago and as of 4 years later, they still had it ... TCC never missed it and didn't ask for it back.