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Don Mahaffey

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Re: Process for head green keeper search?
« Reply #25 on: August 20, 2016, 03:22:02 PM »
If you are going to ask salesmen for recommendations make sure you love what they sell.

Tom_Doak

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Re: Process for head green keeper search?
« Reply #26 on: August 20, 2016, 04:01:43 PM »
If it's a really good job, the best approach would be not to advertise it at all.  Let the opportunity spread by word of mouth, and see who contacts YOU first.  They're the ones who really want the job, and they'll hear about it because other people in the business will tell the people they think are most qualified.


Also, if you know a couple of very good superintendents, just tell them you're looking and it will speed up the process outlined above.  That's what we did for Forest Dunes, when we found ourselves looking for a new man on two weeks' notice last spring ... and it took less than ten days to identify three candidates with recommendations from Chicago Golf, Oakland Hills, and Bandon Dunes.

Anthony_Nysse

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Re: Process for head green keeper search?
« Reply #27 on: August 21, 2016, 10:12:21 AM »
I would ask several fertilizer salesmen, equipment salesmen and irrigation salesmen.  There will be a few common names between them.  Then go talk to those guys.

That's can be so bias and subjective. Maybe salesman don't even get to see the product their products are being used on.

If you're looking to become and strive to be a "type" of course, look at those courses and the management team that creates that. They go and seek them out.
Talk to you consulting architect. They tend to also have a skillful set of guys they have worked with that can produce.
Anthony J. Nysse
Director of Golf Courses & Grounds
Apogee Club
Hobe Sound, FL

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