USGA Course Consulting Service
Unlock the potential of your course through our expert agronomists
Improve the playing quality, environmental sustainability, and economic efficiency of your course.
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:
Unbiased Expertise
Benefit from the extensive experience and rigorous methodology of USGA agronomists.
Actionable plan
Receive a tailored action plan that suits your needs and budget.
Cost Savings
Identify and resolve issues before they become expensive problems.
Consensus Building
Get everyone at your facility on the same page by sharing communications and getting consensus on planning and projects.
Enhanced Experience
Elevate your course’s playing conditions to meet player expectations.
You choose the focus of the visit
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.
General Assessment
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
General Assessment
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
General Assessment
Specialty Assessments
$5,000.00 each
Putting Green Evaluation
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.
Tree Evaluation
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.
Bunker Evaluation
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
Putting Green Evaluation
Tree Evaluation
Tree Evaluation
Bunker Evaluation
Bunker Evaluation
Custom solutions
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Custom solutions
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
Custom solutions
Marrying expertise with technology
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.
Our service connects you with highly skilled USGA agronomists across the country
Meet the agronomists
Jordan Booth, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Course Consulting Service
Pinehurst, NC
Darin Bevard
Senior Director, Championship Agronomy
Kennett Square, PA
Chris Hartwiger
Director, Agronomy
Pinehurst, NC
Cole Thompson, Ph.D.
Director, Research
Pinehurst, NC
Matteo Serena, Ph.D.
Senior Manager of Irrigation Research and Services
Southern California
Brian Powell
Customer Success Agronomist
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.