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What are your biggest issues?

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  1. Dark Shawn
    Dark Shawn avatar
    10/20/2015 4:10 PM
    I am starting this new topic to help identify the top ten common issues in golf course management. Our team at Guardian Imagery would like to help solve the top common issues you are experiencing at your course. Would you be as kind as to reply with your biggest issues? I can only imagine your thinking "great another salesman!" with probably an expletive tucked in there somewhere. I do not have a product I am trying to sell you. I would like nothing more than to bring you a product that solves your biggest problems and makes your job easier. I am starting this venture by reaching out to you to get the issues you need solved not develop a product that solves a problem I think you have. Then I would have to be a salesman and convince you that my product solves a problem. If you are open to a conversation with me, I have a handful of questions I would like to ask. Let's start a conversation.



  2. Jeffrey Sexton
    Jeffrey Sexton avatar
    0 posts
    10/20/2015 5:10 PM
    Call GCSAA and make sure you are allowed this service on the forum. This sounds fishy in my book. Ask them to help if you are serious, they might have this data for a nominal fee. I know I am not the only one thinking this is weird because no one has replied. Good luck.



  3. Peter Bowman
    Peter Bowman avatar
    11 posts
    10/20/2015 6:10 PM
    Too late, Shawn. I already invented it. Haven't sold any yet, but I'll be able to retire after I sell the first one.

    It's part human and part machine.

    The human part:
    1) Never calls in late because his alarm didn't go off, when you know it did, and
    2) Never calls in sick when you know he isn't, and
    3) Can read and understand the english language.
    4) It goes to all greens committee meetings for you, too.

    The machine part:
    5) Can mow greens, tees, fairways, and rough, all by itself, never having to stop to change cutting heights, and
    6) Always in a straight line. Always. And,
    7) It eats its own clippings.
    8) It graciously gives about 0.10" rain every night, only at night, so you never have to water. It's always sunny all day here, too.
    9) It produces, then applies, its own fertilizer while its mowing the golf course for you, so there's no additional cost for that stuff, and
    10) It doesn't allow any compaction-causing golfers and their carts on the course, thereby solving that problem for you.

    How many do you want?



  4. Trevor Monreal
    Trevor Monreal avatar
    5 posts
    10/21/2015 10:10 AM
    Biggest issues:
    5 - Inconsistent golfers (that say the course in inconsistent (ex. bunkers))
    4 - Being axed the same questions over and over and over and over...
    3 - Handicap flags
    2 - Golf carts
    The number ONE issue
    Salesmen wasting my time trying to sell me something that will address my biggest issues.
    By the way, I don't think my job can get any easier...
    Oh wait, I'm sorry
    I'm supposed to say I work 60-80 hours a week and fertilize/spray everyday in the rain



  5. Trevor Monreal
    Trevor Monreal avatar
    5 posts
    10/21/2015 11:10 AM
    Shoot, I forgot one issue.
    Paying $375 a year for a magazine that I haven't seen/read in 5 years :roll:
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what's coming next.
    Wait for it...



  6. Steven Huffstutler
    Steven Huffstutler avatar
    11 posts
    10/21/2015 8:10 PM
    Trevor Monreal said: Shoot, I forgot one issue.
    Paying $375 a year for a magazine that I haven't seen/read in 5 years :roll:
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what's coming next.
    Wait for it...


    But think about all the benefits....you get to comment on this website and you get to congratulate golf pros every year after they win our highest award.



  7. Dark Shawn
    Dark Shawn avatar
    11/2/2015 4:11 PM
    All,
    I appreciate your response to my question, as sarcastic as they were. I assure you I am not trying to be sneaky or sly in my actions. I was attempting to start an honest conversation and easily reach out to large number of professionals in a short easy format. If I offended you in any way, I truly apologize.



  8. Steven Huffstutler
    Steven Huffstutler avatar
    11 posts
    11/2/2015 6:11 PM
    Shawn Dark said: All,
    I appreciate your response to my question, as sarcastic as they were. I assure you I am not trying to be sneaky or sly in my actions. I was attempting to start an honest conversation and easily reach out to large number of professionals in a short easy format. If I offended you in any way, I truly apologize.



    Sorry brother but this is the wrong format.

    Steve



  9. Jason Baker
    Jason Baker avatar
    12 posts
    11/3/2015 7:11 AM
    how has this not been removed from our forum? ridiculous.



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