Golf Course Maintenance Intern
About The Position
Berkeley Hall Club, a distinctive private golf community edged on the banks of the pristine Okatie River in Bluffton, South Carolina – the heart of the coastal Lowcountry – a world with a casually inviting and active lifestyle that sets the standard for all private communities. Just minutes from Hilton Head Island, our 980-acre property is unique among top private golf communities. With two world-class Tom Fazio courses and a stunning Jeffersonian-style clubhouse that form the “Core of the Community,” our two walkable classic courses feel more like a golf retreat, with beautiful lagoons and majestic live oaks.
Requirements
- Current or recent student in, or strong interest in pursuing, turfgrass or golf course management
- Dependable, motivated, and detail-oriented, with pride in the finished product
- Able to work well with others and communicate effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Willing to work early mornings, weekends, and holidays as needed
- Able to stand, walk, bend, kneel, and operate equipment for extended periods
- Able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds
Nice To Haves
- Previous golf course experience preferred but not required
Responsibilities
- Perform daily course setup, including hole locations, tee setup, bunker preparation, and detail work, to club standards
- Operate mowing equipment on greens, tees, fairways, approaches, roughs, and other maintained turf
- Assist with cultural practices, including aeration, verticutting, topdressing, grooming, rolling, and cultivation
- Support tournament and special event preparation
- Assist in managing three ultradwarf bermudagrass greens varieties (Champion, TifEagle, and Tif3D), Tahoma 31 bermudagrass fairways on the North Course, and overseeded Celebration bermudagrass on the South Course
- Participate in overseeding operations when the internship term coincides with the fall season
- Scout for and help identify turfgrass diseases, weeds, and insects
- Assist with pesticide, fertilizer, wetting-agent, and foliar applications, following label directions and safety procedures
- Operate and calibrate GPS-equipped sprayers, boom and walking sprayers, and spreaders
- Use John Deere Operations Center to plan, track, and record applications
- Set up, schedule, monitor, and troubleshoot Kress autonomous mowers
- Collect soil moisture readings with the USGA moisture meter and perform hand watering to daily targets
- Measure green performance with the USGA GS3
- Troubleshoot, adjust, and repair irrigation components
- Record moisture, weather, clipping yield, and application data
- Assist with renovation and course improvement projects, such as bunker, drainage, irrigation, and turf renovation
- Work with the equipment team on reel setup, height-of-cut checks, and preventative maintenance
- Assist with morning job assignments, crew communication, and quality-control checks as experience allows
- Follow all safety policies and use required personal protective equipment
- Perform other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
