Agronomy
Agronomy
We know that golf course agronomy is a leading aspect of a country club’s value proposition. Turf playing conditions impact your club’s reputation – affecting rounds, pricing, customer retention, and overall revenues.
GreatLIFE is committed to achieving optimal agronomic and turf conditions at every one of our facilities.
Centralized resources empower every club superintendent to optimize their daily activities and operate with maximum efficiency.
The outcome is long-term agronomic health for your facility, maximum playable hours, and optimized expense management.
We believe…
that the golf course agronomy is the heart and soul of your club, and the primary key to customer retention and facility valuation.
Get all the benefits of scale
Centralized Resources
No longer is your facility or your superintendent alone. Gain efficiency by allowing GreatLIFE to handle the busy work, offer guidance, and bring insights to help you operate more efficiently.
Buying Power
Golf course maintenance expenses are notoriously a top line item. Managing dozens of facilities enables GreatLIFE to negotiate prices on equipment and chemicals that no stand-alone facility could ever achieve.
Staffing & Human Resources
Execute on finding and retaining top talent for your payroll dollar. Understand local and macro market forces that impact your ability to manage payroll expenses, onboard new hires efficiently, and manage costs.
Granular Detail & Performance Metrics
No more waiting on EOM reports to see how expenses are trending compared to facility expectations. Knowing exactly where you stand throughout the month provides owners with performance snapshots and allows operators to quickly reference their spending to stay in line with facility goals.
Make smarter decisions by fully understanding what nutrients are available to the plant. Knowing the deficiencies that may be present can save thousands of dollars in labor and take the guess work out of cultivating a healthy playing surface.
Know the effectiveness of your turfgrass management program. A combination of field and laboratory analysis methods provide quantitative estimates to determine overall plant health, allowing for more informed decisions and better turf management practices.
Business Decisions Based on Real Data
Financial Benchmarking
Understand where you’ve been, the value of your current activities, and know exactly where you’re heading through detailed benchmarking programming. Continuous improvement and small refinements over time deliver big wins.
Monthly Agronomy Report
Take the guess work out of what cultural practices are impacting your progress toward achieving project goals and objectives. Breaking down the details provides a better understanding of the effectiveness of current programs and leads to better decisions in the future.
Irrigation Optimization
Stop wasting water. Our Director of Agronomy will analyze your current irrigation system and overall system health to ensure the turfgrass is receiving the correct amount of water and overall management of water resources are in line with local guidelines.
Centralized Knowledge Base
Dedicated Director of Agronomy
Your facility has direct 1-to-1 access to an assigned Director of Agronomy, highly specialized in your geography and turf conditions. Your DOA can provide insight, help to avoid mistakes, and offer customized resources to help you win.
Best Practices
Instantly increase productivity and grow the cultural knowledge at your facility. Our network of experienced superintendents has developed a wealth of documentation to save time and resources while elevating the customer experience. Tapping into our network, your superintendent is provided full access to effective agronomic processes at the click of a button.
Proven Science
Gain measurable and indisputable insights into your playing surfaces needs. Implement better cultural strategies and tactics by uniting experienced agronomic intuition with scientific data.
