Summer Employment Opportunities

Spring is quickly approaching and before long, the course will be filled with golfers and we will have more work to do than time to complete it. As we prepare for the season, we are starting to fill our seasonal positions. Finding hard-working and dependable people to work during the golf season is always difficult and seems to get more so every year. You would be doing the golf course a favor by spreading the word that we are hiring to anyone you may know that would have interest in golf course work. Please have them contact me at 402.289.0901.

We have a few of our typical seasonal positions open, but have also created a couple new positions for the coming season.



The first new position would be for two people to mow the rough on Thursday and Sunday evenings. In past years, we made three mower passes around each fairway on Monday and Friday morning –  a process we call "swaths". The goal of this was to provide less penal rough right along the fairway while we focused on the rest of the "outside rough." One issue that frequently arises with this mowing schedule is by Monday and Friday morning, the turf adjacent to the fairways is long and wet and the mowing process results in a mess. Inevitably, we end up having to blow or drag the clippings. This clean up process is time-consuming, rarely works well, and uses up additional manpower. The other issue we run into, especially on a busy Friday, is getting caught by golfers. Once we get caught by golf, the opportunity to come back and remove clippings is gone. This leaves a less than ideal playing surface and a sloppy appearance on the course.

My hope is that by mowing these areas the evening before, when things are dry, we will have little or no mess to clean up and no need to run the rough mowers around fairways on Monday and Friday. Of course, we have golf to work around during the evenings but we have a mow pattern in place that will eliminate almost all repeat contact with golf groups. The goal is for the golfer to see the mower, at most, once per nine hole round.

This would be a great position for a retiree looking to keep busy or for someone that wants to make a few extra bucks and enjoy the golf benefits that come with working on the course.



The other positions we are always looking to fill are the dedicated weekend positions. We need a lot of workers for a short period of time on the weekends to get ahead of the 6:30 am three tee start. I like to have a handful of people that are willing to work a few hours on Saturday and Sunday only. Juggling the vacations, sports, family, and summer school schedules of the regular seasonal crew is very difficult and the dedicated weekenders help fill gaps and keep a consistent work force on the course. These positions will require a bit more physical output than the evening mowing positions and may require spending some afternoons hand-watering, but are still a great position.
Again, please contact me at the shop if you or anyone you know would have any interest in joining the maintenance crew for the golf season.