[Thomas Dai]

A question if I may for those who look after our courses.
What are currently your 3 most important pieces of course maintenance equipment?
The pieces that you consider are vital to your maintenance activities including equipment that does work that could be done manually but does it quicker, better, cheaper, safer etc.
And a supplementary question … what were yoir 3 most important pieces of equipment 20 yrs ago?
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[Jaeger Kovich]

I’m not a super but I’d say:
1 cup cutter
2 green mower
3 tractor cause you can do pretty much everything else w a good tractor if you need too and now we can play golf.

[Anthony_Nysse]

1. Aerifer


2. Aerifer


3. Aerifier

[John Emerson]

1. Aerifer


2. Aerifer


3. Aerifier

What Tony said!

[Tom Bacsanyi]

I would defer to the head men above (I'm just a lowly assistant), but in Colorado:


1) Sprayer


2) Greens mower


3) Topdresser (big and little)


Sprayer wins out because snow mold can literally wipe us out in the winter/early spring, and our growing season is too short to recover anything in time for the high season.

[Alan FitzGerald CGCS MG]

1- staff
2- staff
3- staff


In all seriousness though, whats most important would depend on the course. For the very basics Jaegers answer will get you playing.


Assuming the basics are covered (ie a range of mowers for different areas) then


Sprayer


Aerator


Topdresser/material handler


I'd say this hasn't changed much from 20 years ago


I think in the future the #1 answer will be the robot mower

[Kyle Harris]

There’s no golf without a hole.

[Bruce Hospes]

Topdresser

[Anthony_Nysse]

There’s no golf without a hole.

Yeah there is. Id venture a guess many of us have played golf to a stick in the ground or putting on a putting green with the following;


Cupless Jr. Flagstick | Par Aide

[Jaeger Kovich]

There’s no golf without a hole.

Yeah there is. Id venture a guess many of us have played golf to a stick in the ground or putting on a putting green with the following;


Cupless Jr. Flagstick | Par Aide

Cupless Jr. Flagstick is def not top 3 maintenance equipment. One of the most basic rules of golf is holing out and I think the only one that needs a piece of equipment, so cup cutter still #1.

[Anthony_Nysse]

There’s no golf without a hole.

Yeah there is. Id venture a guess many of us have played golf to a stick in the ground or putting on a putting green with the following;


Certainly didn't say that it was. My replay is up above, earlier. Kyle commented that there is no golf without a whole.

Cupless Jr. Flagstick | Par Aide

Cupless Jr. Flagstick is def not top 3 maintenance equipment. One of the most basic rules of golf is holing out and I think the only one that needs a piece of equipment, so cup cutter still #1.

[Kyle Harris]

There’s no golf without a hole.

Yeah there is. Id venture a guess many of us have played golf to a stick in the ground or putting on a putting green with the following;


Certainly didn't say that it was. My replay is up above, earlier. Kyle commented that there is no golf without a whole.

Cupless Jr. Flagstick | Par Aide

Cupless Jr. Flagstick is def not top 3 maintenance equipment. One of the most basic rules of golf is holing out and I think the only one that needs a piece of equipment, so cup cutter still #1.

Convince the membership at Mountain Lake to move in that direction and I'll concede your point. I look forward to how well that handicap travels.

Not holding my breath, either.

A wise person once told me that all maintenance practices on a golf course are done to ensure that you can mow grass in the future. Prioritizing maintenance equipment with that in mind implies that whatever sort of mowing equipment you are using would be second to the equipment that sets up the golf course.

Aerifier? Certainly useful but there's no use for it if you're not preparing a surface for golf daily. It's entire exigency is based on playing golf. Playing golf is the priority.

Is anyone getting a steady dose of rain at convenient times in convenient amounts? Even the golden age guys knew that some form of irrigation infrastructure was required... application and usage is the art but you do *need* some way of watering at some point.

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