The stresses on golf course supers…….
Delegates to the recent GMANSW Open Forum have been told that green keeping is a dying trade and with no new blood coming through the golf industry could face a real shortage of well qualified superintendents in 5-10 years.
President of the NSWGCSA, Stuart Gill, says that simply getting good staff these days is getting harder and harder and coupled with the stress placed on superintendents by club committees and members the issues were a very real concern.
He said that being a superintendent in Sydney is a year-round job with overall increasing demands. “At times, the profession can be all consuming; managing a perishable product that is controlled by an uncontrollable force”.
Mr Gill told the Forum at Ryde-Parramatta Golf Club that the biggest problem supers face these days is staffing with most young people who leave school now taking the step into university and virtually nobody wanting to be a greenkeeper.
Click here to read full story
