Golf Course Landscaping Logistics
Golf Course Landscaping Logistics
Golf courses are known for how neatly kept their outdoor areas are. In order for the game to be played properly and enjoyed to its fullest extent, they have to be.
So just how important is it to have professional landscaping at your golf course? What goes into landscaping one? Let’s take a deeper look.
How Important is Landscaping at a Golf Course?
So how important is it to focus heavily on your landscaping for a golf course?
1. Good Landscaping Makes it Easier to Play
If you have ever played golf, you know that having distractions like unkempt trees, long grass, and a general dissatisfying landscape makes it harder to concentrate and play well. You are spending a lot of time (and money) on this course to play, and having beautiful surroundings make it that much more worth it.
2. The Environment
However, while you do want a golf course that is kept up with and neat, it should also blend in to nature. Landscaping is able to help with that as well. The plants that are chosen, maintaining the trees that are currently in the area, and making sure that the course doesn’t infringe on the nature around it are all vitally important.
If an area is too manicured and actually strips away from the greenery and beauty of the natural outdoors, this is also a problem. There needs to be a good balance between embracing nature while also keeping the course neat and tidy for playing.
Golf Course Landscaping Ideas
For a little bit of inspiration, here are some great golf course landscaping ideas to get you started.
Section Off the Landscaping
Having different textures and sections of landscaping will provide a look that is far more pleasing to the eye than just having a sea of green grass over the entire area.
Implement flowers and other colorful plants, hardscaping, water features, and trees to make it a more diverse look. Having different sections will keep everything in its place while looking very nice.
Combine your Pathways and Greenery
Along the pathways of the golf course, add as much greenery as you can. This will provide a soothing, beautiful visual for the players walking along them.
Check Out Other Golf Courses
Getting inspiration from other golf courses can be a good way to get your creative juices flowing. Later on, we will be taking a look at some of our favorite options around us to help you out.
Use Water Features
Combine water with your turf for additional textures and looks. It gives the golfers an additional challenge while playing golf, and it will change the entire look of the course if done properly.
Adding Golf Courses to Your Landscaping Services
If you are a landscaping company that is thinking of adding golf course services to your options for customers, make sure you know what you are getting yourself into first.
Golf courses are going to be careful and meticulous about who they are choosing to handle their landscaping. If you are completely new at this type of work, you will have to prove yourself by showing how well you can maintain grounds. Excellent communication with the clients is of course also essential.
If you are just getting your foot into the door and have trouble landing big commercial golf courses at first, start smaller. You can focus simply on snow removal, clubhouse landscaping, etc, and then as you become more trusted by clients as a newcomer, you can move to bigger things.
Having a really good grasp of the golf course industry is vitally important. Consider hiring a golf course superintendent to showcase to your clients that you have someone who completely understands the business.
Maintaining a golf course will require staffing every single day of the week, so it’s important to consider your employees and their current workload.
When it comes to putting greens, they have to be watered every day so they are never too wet or too dry. The other aspects of the landscaping will need to be kept cut, cleaned, and always looking lively for guests of the course.
Lastly, you will want to consider how much you want to invest when adding this service to your options for customers. A lot of the equipment you use already will be helpful, but you will need some specialty items as well. Putting greens need special machines for upkeep, as everything needs to be mowed down to below an eighth of an inch on a daily basis. The cut quality also has to be perfect in order to provide golfers with excellent putting surfaces.
Check Out These Beautifully Landscaped Golf Courses
If you happen to be in the San Francisco Bay Area anytime soon, here are some of our top inspirational landscaped golf courses.
Poplar Creek Golf Course
First up we have the Poplar Creek Golf Course in San Mateo.
This gorgeous course is a favorite among golfers in the San Francisco Bay Area, and it is very conveniently located just near Hwy. 101 (just south of the San Francisco International Airport).
The course itself is fun and provides a great time for players of all different levels. There are unique challenges to be had throughout the course, but they do still maintain a fairly classic layout for beginners.
Poplar Creek Golf Course does an amazing job of combining gorgeous water features with trees and other beautiful plants to incorporate as much as nature into the course as possible. The name Poplar Creek comes from the gorgeous creek running through it, and the selection of poplar trees.
Mariners Point Golf Course & Driving Range
Next up we have the Mariners Point Golf Course & Driving Range.
This incredible golf course gives you a stunning view of the San Mateo bridge and they bay in the background. Along with this view they have an incredibly well-manicured course for golfing as well as differing textures with versatile trees and flowers.Half
Moon Bay Golf Links
Last but not least, we have the breathtaking Half Moon Bay Golf Links.
They actually offer two different courses, the Old Course, and the Ocean Course.
The Old Course came about in 1973, and was designed by Francis Duane and Arnold Palmer. It is incredibly green and lush with a corridor view of the Pacific ocean. The landscaping is impeccable, and kept up with constantly.
The Ocean Course is right on the Pacific, and was designed by the renowned landscape architect Arthur Hills. This course has beautiful native grasses that accent the trees perfectly, and you are given a clear and enormous view of the ocean as you play.
Our Final Thoughts on Landscaping a Golf Course
We hope that you have found our guide to starting your golf course landscaping services helpful. It’s definitely an in-depth task that requires quite a bit of upkeep, but it’s worth every minute.
What are your favorite aspects of golf course landscaping?
