Golf Course Maintenance Management
A free short course by Sportal Corporate — not a credit-bearing university award.
6h 1m of video6 videos10 written lessons
The management side of running a golf course — best-practice programmes, the maintenance facility, water efficiency, budgets, safety and climate action.
Six in-depth lessons cover what a written best-practice plan contains and why regulators increasingly expect one, how the maintenance facility itself should be laid out and run, safety in the maintenance operation, water efficiency, budgeting and benchmarking against comparable courses, and climate action and sustainability as an operational discipline rather than a statement.
This is the companion to the agronomy course and assumes you already understand the turf. It is written for superintendents, course managers, assistants preparing to step up, and club committees who approve the budget. Lessons run long — several are full conference sessions — with written notes and key terms. A ten-question quiz at 80% earns a verifiable certificate.
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Free, self-paced, no payment. Work through the lessons, pass the quiz, and get a certificate you can verify by QR code.
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What you will learn
16 lessons · 6h 1m- 1How this course works
- 2Video 1 — What a written best-practice plan is1h 8m
- 3Notes — What a written best-practice plan is
- 4Video 2 — The maintenance facility itself1h 41m
- 5Notes — The maintenance facility itself
- 6Video 3 — Safety in the maintenance operation6m
- 7Notes — Safety in the maintenance operation
- 8Video 4 — Water efficiency1h 5m
- 9Notes — Water efficiency
- 10Video 5 — Budgets and benchmarking57m
- 11Notes — Budgets and benchmarking
- 12Video 6 — Climate action and sustainability1h 4m
- 13Notes — Climate action and sustainability
- 14Key terms
- 15Key takeaways
- 16Exercise — Draft one section of a BMP plan
Lessons unlock one at a time. Finish them all, score 80% on the quiz, and your certificate is issued automatically.
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