Naturally, clubs with higher maintenance budgets and larger staffs tend to have more pristine conditions. Some of this is obvious. With a larger staff you can have people edge and rake bunkers by hand, fill divots with sand, repair ball marks, patch bad areas on greens, pull weeds, and so on.
But take fairways, for example. How exactly do budget and staff help maintain pristine, monoculture fairways? What do you do with a fairway besides water it, mow it, and punch and sand it a couple times a year? How does money and manpower stop 5 other kinds of grasses from growing in? Are they applying more chemicals? Pulling invasive sprigs by hand?
More generally—what do clubs with big staffs and budgets actually do with those people and that money to maintain the general playing areas in better condition?