3/18/2014 7:03 AM
I will be of no help, probably.
18 hole municipal course. We have 3 full-time guys while sharing a mechanic with 2 other courses. I have a part time maintenance mechanic (24 hours per week), 2 to 3 other part time seasonal staff (20-24 hours per week), and if I'm lucky this year, 2 seasonal working 40 hours a week, and 1 person working up to 40 on landscape beds. I guess when adding up the hours we are looking at 8 staff members in season.
Our 18 hole "championship course" has 6 FTE all season (might be 7), and they will have at least 6 seasonal workers going 40 hours a week. Add at least one person doing landscaping.
Our other course is an 18 hole course, with a 9 hole lighted par 3. They have 5 all year around and at least 3 seasonal last year. I think they are adding 1 30 hour a week landscape person and maybe 2 more at 40 hours a week seasonal staff.
I was at a course in northern Indiana where we had me, the mechanic, and one student working in the winter, and about 19 in mid-summer, but when we figured man hours because of the part time retired guys, and other variables (students working around their class schedule) we were at about 10. So I don't know if you could look at the part-time route as well? We used them for a lot of morning mowing before play and then they would leave when done.
Mel
Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO