Unlock the potential of your course through our expert agronomists
For over 75 years, we’ve been providing on-site Turf Advisory Services to courses nationwide, offering expert guidance to fine-tune your course management practices while optimizing your budget. We're not here to dictate your course's operations, but to provide impartial insights, research-backed education and proven strategies. What does a USGA agronomist bring to your course? Take a look:
Benefit from the extensive experience and rigorous methodology of USGA agronomists.
Receive a tailored action plan that suits your needs and budget.
Identify and resolve issues before they become expensive problems.
Get everyone at your facility on the same page by sharing communications and getting consensus on planning and projects.
Elevate your course’s playing conditions to meet player expectations.
Scheduled at your convenience, our visit tailors to your specific needs, assessing key concerns on-site. followed by a comprehensive report with actionable recommendations, and research-backed education materials.
Half Day Visit, 4-hour: $3,000.00
Full Day Visit, 8-hour: $4,000.00
Half Day Package (Two Half Day Visits in one calendar year): $5,000.00
Provide an objective, impartial, science-based evaluation of all factors influencing turfgrass health, playability, and sustainability.
Evaluate the golf course agronomic plan and maintenance practices as well as infrastructure, turfgrasses, soils, equipment, and budget.
Provide short and long-term recommendations to improve golf course playing conditions and turfgrass health.
Build consensus and implement strategies for resource prioritization.
General Assessment
$5,000.00 each
Examine each putting green and surrounding complex for several factors that predict putting green performance in the short and long term.
Evaluate putting green surface performance.
Identify opportunities to improve putting green performance.
Provide site-specific recommendations for improved putting green management.
Examine golf course tree plantings as they relate to turfgrass health, playability, tree quality and aesthetics
Evaluate tree placements, types and conditions.
Make specific short and long-term tree recommendations to improve turfgrass health, playability, tree quality and aesthetics.
Provide comprehensive factual information and observations regarding the bunkers on the golf course.
Assess bunkers for short-term issues related to daily maintenance and/or operational efficiency, and longer-term issues related to infrastructure.
Make recommendations as appropriate.
Putting Green Evaluation
Tree Evaluation
Bunker Evaluation
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Combining multiple on-site visits with specialty evaluations or virtual consultations to provide you with a wide array of services to support maintenance practices or renovation planning.
After an initial meeting, our team will build a customized consulting package for your facility that can be executed in one visit or over multiple visits to your property.
Create a strategic roadmap to success with a custom course consulting visit that targets the unique needs and objectives of your course. Examples include:
Complete course renovation projects
Special course projects
International visits
Special packages designed for allied golf associations to provide this service to golf courses in their region.
Custom solutions
Access tools used by USGA Consultant's, and benefit from continued access to our expertise well beyond a consulting visit, such the GS3 Ball, originally designed for USGA Championships, and DEACON for comprehensive insights and resources to maintain superior playing surfaces.
Senior Director, Course Consulting Service
Pinehurst, NC
Senior Director, Championship Agronomy
Kennett Square, PA
Director, Agronomy
Pinehurst, NC
Director, Research
Pinehurst, NC
Senior Manager of Irrigation Research and Services
Southern California
Customer Success Agronomist
Pinehurst, NC
Manager, Green Section Education
Pinehurst, NC
Manager, Green Section Education
Pinehurst, NC
USGA consultant Darin Bevard has been an instrumental part of identifying the key priorities and helping us implement both large and small changes to our maintenance program. He helped us get through a very tough situation and the recovery plan we developed saved hundreds of thousands of dollars.