Guides
Straight answers about course maps.
What a course map shows, how the greens staff and the committee use it, and what it does not do, with the sources behind each answer and the date the facts were last checked.
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How do you read a golf course hole sheet?
The surfaces, the area table, the dates and the source line, and how the greens staff use the sheet.
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How do you use surface areas for mowing, fertiliser and chemical budgets?
Rate times area, surface by surface, with a worked example and the limits of a mapped area.
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What do the irrigation and drainage layers on a course map show?
Your records, drawn as supplied: what that means, and why the layers do not locate buried services.
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What files come with a course map, and how do you open them?
The sheets, the spreadsheet and the mapped data: what each is for, and what to send a contractor.
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How do you keep a course map current?
Revisions first, then Forever: update hours, estimates first, and what you keep if you stop.