This is great content for your channel Liam. This is the kind of stuff us golfers never get to see, and it is really interesting. Greenkeepers are the unsung heroes of the golf club.
videos like this are great for helping golfers appreciate the work involved in keeping their courses healthy and ready for play. That helps players value the game in all respects. Kudos, Liam!
I used to be involved at a non league football club and we had one of the best non league groundsmen in the country. We had so much trouble with leather jackets not just through eating the roots but from Badgers digging the pitch to get to them. Some mornings you’d go in and the pitch was like a war zone with deep,holes dug all over the pitch, it could take literally hours and hours to repair then the following morning it’d be the same again. We got around that by buying an electric fence....best £1000 we ever spent as it almost stopped that issue overnight. Unfortunately the leather jackets were still there but it cured a serious issue.
Started working on a golf course at 8 yrs old and was part of my training to be a Pro. This is a wonderful video Liam because some golfers have no idea how hard the green keepers work to make the course beautiful.
Love these green keepers videos Liam, keep them coming thorough out the year it will be fascinating. I’d never have thought all those things where under my feet as I putt!
Fascinating to see this side of golf explained in more detail. Everyone mainly thinks of green keepers as glorified grass cutters. This video highlights how far that is from the truth. You need to be a complete professional in your field to keep a course in good condition and you’ve a brilliant green keeper there. The unsung hero’s of golf, without their knowledge and commitment we’d be bashing balls around a farmers field! Superb video guys.
Great video and very interesting. This series will be very informative and let people know the hard work our greenkeepers due so that we have a great turf to play on. Great job Liam.
And I'm glad you guys are showing what us greenkeepers have to put up with and to educate some golfers on what actually occurs on their local courses. More videos should be made like this for golfers to learn and to appreciate their courses a lot more!
Very interesting to see what goes on behind the scenes at a golf course, maybe make people appreciate how much work goes in to it! Great video as always Liam
Just an amazing video. We are looking at real "FISH FOOD". Two thumbs up to all of the golf course superintendents who work hard to maintain the courses.
I’m really into this. Keep lawns at home and have done this the last two autumns. Only small lawns so nowhere near as many but still back breaking picking them up. Second time used a powerful wet and dry vac which worked in the most part but because of the moisture etc. not as well as I’d have liked. I’m going to come up with something. This practice alone improves the turf no end. Add that to all the other cultural practices performed by the green keeping crews and it amounts to a lot of hard work. Green keepers are the unsung heroes of golf and need to be appreciated. Power to you and your kind Dave👍 and a big👍 to you too Liam for highlighting this in your videos. At least all the Golf Mates now know what goes on.
The effort that goes into keeping these golf courses looking and playing so well really goes unnoticed. Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention so that I can appreciate even more the work that goes into keeping our courses looking so good all year round 👏👏👏👏
I do enjoy the green keeper videos. It’s things we as golfers need to be more appreciative of. Thanks for sharing this side of golf we don’t often see.
@@antjohn1397 no we can’t they band the chemical a couple of years ago that killed them so there’s nothing you can do about them , apart from what was shown in the video
Liam , Big Respect to all green keeping staff, very very interesting, thay say you learn something new every day, today I have, excellent vlog, can't wait to see the next one, keep up the good work, the unseen heroes of the courses . ⛳👍🏴
This is perhaps one of the best videos you have done! With 13 years golf course maintenance under my belt I know what it takes to keep a course in good condition. More golfers should know how much work is put in day to day. I'll bet with your interaction with the maintenance aspect you will gain a new respect for those that keep our courses playable and what it takes to do so.
Great little video Liam, thank you for doing this, this was a fantastic insight into the world of the greenkeeper, I've never seen this before. Great content, Liam!!
I've been a Greenkeeper for 18 years and I've got big respect to Liam for helping out and showing golfers what greenkeeping is really like... Unsociable hours, weekend work, and poor pay in relation to skills and knowledge... I don't really have many positives to say about the job on the whole except for healthy fresh air and and a sense of pride in your work when the course is good.. We all work to pay bills at the end of the day though, and unfortunately greenkeeping is on the whole, very poorly paid... Hopefully these vids will enlighten golfers about the amazing and hard work your Greenkeepers put in to your course to be at its best, it's a never ending story.... Cheers Liam.... 👍🏻👌🏻
I gave you one job and one job only,nearly spat my drink out when you went to the drone footage,absolutely priceless and having watched all of your videos I know it wasn't just a stunt for the camera.
The golfers that don't fix their pitch marks are normally the first to complain about the shape of the greens. Fix yours and 2 more takes 2 minutes maybe
Wow ! Thanks Liam and Dave for this info,I had no idea that these little blighters did so much damage to the Green's, I always thought it was the earth worms !
Do you know what...... this is one of the best golf videos I’ve seen...... this is why golf mates channel is up there with the best, I don’t know why, but I was enthralled by this video. Fantastic Liam, keep up the good work...... your not bad for a ‘Bowtener’ Ryan from Wigan 😜
I'd be more worried about the squirrel looking for his nuts on the green 😂 - Caddyshack just came to mind LMAO. Are you paying him for guest appearances? 🤣
Was out playing today and noticed a couple of greens had "holes" pecked in by birds. I was wondering what they were after. Very interesting stuff and a big shout out to Dave and all the greenkeepers who keep our courses looking so good
Just one of the many jobs our green keepers have to do to keep our courses looking good. It still amazes me sometimes that even after all their hard work , there are still some people out there who still dont repair pitch marks and divots. If we all did our bit to help, surely it would make the lives these great keepers of our courses a little less stressful. Great insight Liam
Love this video Liam it really shows just the tip of the iceberg of what the ground crew has to do to keep course looking good a big thank you to the ground crew of golf courses all over the world thanks mates.
Love this, things we don't usually see the green keepers do. lots of hard work behind the scenes to make our rounds more enjoyable. Thanks for bringing this to us Liam, I hope to see more videos like this
Nice video again, Liam - what was the squirrel's score playing in the background? It had to putt in some 10-footer i reckon... (at 1:30 - 2:00 it went off as if the last one was given... ;)
Brilliant video 👍 well done Dave it's great to see a top greenkeeper with knowledge and how to resolve issues all greenkeepers are facing with life without chemicals. Well done Liam for highlighting greenkeeper problems it will go a long way for golfers to try and understand the issues and hard dedicated work of greenkeepers. We're not just here to be moaned at lol
Great behind the scenes video Liam. Just one tiny bit of what grounds crews have to deal with to keep us all happily hacking around the course. Shocking how many grubs are just in that little area.
Very interesting video. Wonder if there is that problem over here in states? A good idea is have the keeper of the greens so a how to showing proper way to fix pitch marks
Great vlog Liam. Very interesting and informative. I would love to see you do a vlog on green divot repair, highlighting the damage not repairing them can do to greens. This is a pet bug-bear of mine when I reach a green and see all the pitch marks that haven't been repaired. I've been told that if you repair a pitch mark the green will recover in 5 days, if not, then it take 5 weeks. If you can get OMP to give us a practical demonstration/advice on a 5W vs Hybrid. I'm 68 and would appreciate his/your advice. Keep up the good work.
We take greenkeepers a little for granted sometimes , they do a great job . just wondered if it would be quicker to gather the little blighters up with a broom . Anyway another great vlog Liam thank you :-)
Everyday is a school day ! Great to see the other side off the golf course ! Cheers dave.. question for dave ? Could u use a sort brush to gather them together .. or would that damage the grass ?
And that's another very valid factor to add to the video you did last week on green fees. When you see what groundsmen do you see the value for the fees you pay better.
Great video again Liam. This is a great series of vlogs and very informative of the work the fabulous work greenkeepers have to do. They don't get enough credit from golfers. Great work lads.
Huge respect to all green keepers, I’m chumy with my local gk here in Australia and I remember a issue with locusts and the only well best remedy was encouraging the birds in more feeders in the trees ect it did sort of help but the feral cats case on the seen 🤦🏻♂️ never ending for them boys if you ever see your green keepers/ grounds man buy them a coffee show them we love them, without them out game wouldn’t be possible 🙏👍👌
Brilliant vid Liam very informative , a bit labour intensive going round on hands and knees picking them up one by one , wouldn't you think there would be a "greenkeeping hoover " to suck them up .
This is really good stuff Liam! I use to help out at my local golf club and was amazed at some of the jobs on their list? Us golfers really don’t fully understand or appreciate the difficulties of a green keepers job?? Thanks for bringing Dave to explain what he’s doing, and trying to achieve ..!! Great video mate..👍🏽🏌️
Very interesting. I live on a golf course in AZ and each year for a few weeks they’re everywhere on the outside of the house, and of course a few get into our home. We have lots of birds, big and small on the course so I have never seen the larvae in large numbers on the grass in the morning. Thanks for the information.
When I was 16, I worked at a resort that offered a nine hole and an eighteen hole course. A course properly maintained takes many hours of painstaking work. We started at 5:00, my first day the senior greens master was “showing me the ropes”. At the correct time, he says ‘Look, I’ve dropped the cupsetter in the fairway, run down and get it.’ Timing was perfect, on comes the fairway sprinklers as I was well into the fairway. Initiation day...
A really educative, public-service episode. So much goes into getting the course playable, much of it unseen. This year little viruses, just like little grubs, have disrupted the whole world and we akk know about it.
This is great content for your channel Liam. This is the kind of stuff us golfers never get to see, and it is really interesting. Greenkeepers are the unsung heroes of the golf club.
Thank you
We miss you cyren ! Cheap and very efficient chemical
Anybody else fixated with the Squirrel 🐿 !!!
It’s bean following me lol
Golf Mates “even a blind squirrel finds a nut”
It found 1 today
English version of Caddyshack
Nick Hopper ⚒
videos like this are great for helping golfers appreciate the work involved in keeping their courses healthy and ready for play. That helps players value the game in all respects. Kudos, Liam!
Thank you
I used to be involved at a non league football club and we had one of the best non league groundsmen in the country. We had so much trouble with leather jackets not just through eating the roots but from Badgers digging the pitch to get to them. Some mornings you’d go in and the pitch was like a war zone with deep,holes dug all over the pitch, it could take literally hours and hours to repair then the following morning it’d be the same again. We got around that by buying an electric fence....best £1000 we ever spent as it almost stopped that issue overnight. Unfortunately the leather jackets were still there but it cured a serious issue.
Started working on a golf course at 8 yrs old and was part of my training to be a Pro. This is a wonderful video Liam because some golfers have no idea how hard the green keepers work to make the course
beautiful.
That's crazy! The Birds must love it when they see the tarps out! Buffet in the morning!
Love these green keepers videos Liam, keep them coming thorough out the year it will be fascinating.
I’d never have thought all those things where under my feet as I putt!
Fascinating to see this side of golf explained in more detail. Everyone mainly thinks of green keepers as glorified grass cutters. This video highlights how far that is from the truth. You need to be a complete professional in your field to keep a course in good condition and you’ve a brilliant green keeper there. The unsung hero’s of golf, without their knowledge and commitment we’d be bashing balls around a farmers field! Superb video guys.
Thank you
Here here... 👏🏻
That was amazing! Hats off to the greens keepers and all their hard work!! Thanks for sharing this Liam, I learned a lot.
Thank you
Great video and very interesting. This series will be very informative and let people know the hard work our greenkeepers due so that we have a great turf to play on. Great job Liam.
Thank you
And I'm glad you guys are showing what us greenkeepers have to put up with and to educate some golfers on what actually occurs on their local courses. More videos should be made like this for golfers to learn and to appreciate their courses a lot more!
Very interesting to see what goes on behind the scenes at a golf course, maybe make people appreciate how much work goes in to it! Great video as always Liam
Thank you
Just an amazing video. We are looking at real "FISH FOOD". Two thumbs up to all of the golf course superintendents who work hard to maintain the courses.
I’m really into this. Keep lawns at home and have done this the last two autumns. Only small lawns so nowhere near as many but still back breaking picking them up. Second time used a powerful wet and dry vac which worked in the most part but because of the moisture etc. not as well as I’d have liked. I’m going to come up with something. This practice alone improves the turf no end. Add that to all the other cultural practices performed by the green keeping crews and it amounts to a lot of hard work. Green keepers are the unsung heroes of golf and need to be appreciated. Power to you and your kind Dave👍 and a big👍 to you too Liam for highlighting this in your videos. At least all the Golf Mates now know what goes on.
The effort that goes into keeping these golf courses looking and playing so well really goes unnoticed. Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention so that I can appreciate even more the work that goes into keeping our courses looking so good all year round 👏👏👏👏
I do enjoy the green keeper videos. It’s things we as golfers need to be more appreciative of. Thanks for sharing this side of golf we don’t often see.
Well done Liam as a greeenkeeper myself , nice to show people what goes on behind the seance and not just sitting on a mower like people think 👍
How ? And when do you try a stop it getting to this ? Thanks
ant john what do you mean ? Don’t mean to be rude.
Sorry, i mean do you spray before it gets to this or do you have to do this every year?
@@antjohn1397 no we can’t they band the chemical a couple of years ago that killed them so there’s nothing you can do about them , apart from what was shown in the video
Proper job by Dave. He clearly cares about his job and about the golfers who play his course. Thanks for sharing Liam.
Liam , Big Respect to all green keeping staff, very very interesting, thay say you learn something new every day, today I have, excellent vlog, can't wait to see the next one, keep up the good work, the unseen heroes of the courses . ⛳👍🏴
Really interesting insight into what goes on under our feet, this one was so good even the Squirrels had a sneak preview. Great camera work Joe
This is perhaps one of the best videos you have done! With 13 years golf course maintenance under my belt I know what it takes to keep a course in good condition. More golfers should know how much work is put in day to day. I'll bet with your interaction with the maintenance aspect you will gain a new respect for those that keep our courses playable and what it takes to do so.
Another great and interesting video. Special thanks to all the green keepers for a job well done.
Great little video Liam, thank you for doing this, this was a fantastic insight into the world of the greenkeeper, I've never seen this before. Great content, Liam!!
You learn something new every day. Great info. Thanks! Look fwd to more.
I've been a Greenkeeper for 18 years and I've got big respect to Liam for helping out and showing golfers what greenkeeping is really like... Unsociable hours, weekend work, and poor pay in relation to skills and knowledge... I don't really have many positives to say about the job on the whole except for healthy fresh air and and a sense of pride in your work when the course is good.. We all work to pay bills at the end of the day though, and unfortunately greenkeeping is on the whole, very poorly paid...
Hopefully these vids will enlighten golfers about the amazing and hard work your Greenkeepers put in to your course to be at its best, it's a never ending story.... Cheers Liam.... 👍🏻👌🏻
I gave you one job and one job only,nearly spat my drink out when you went to the drone footage,absolutely priceless and having watched all of your videos I know it wasn't just a stunt for the camera.
The grossed out moan/uggg/ohh @ 11:03 from the cameraman is priceless...and perfect. Worth the price of subscribing on it's own!
Absolutely fascinating. The work these green keepers do is fantastic.
Don’t show Mr Barlow he will eat them, delicacy’s in Thailand them 😂
Respect to Dave and all greenskeepers👍 for things below the surface (literally) that we golfers never think about.
A very environmentally friendly solution. I wish there was a similar solution for those golfers who never fix their pitch marks😂
Dump all the leather jackets in their car in March
And divots!
The golfers that don't fix their pitch marks are normally the first to complain about the shape of the greens. Fix yours and 2 more takes 2 minutes maybe
@@KGNKrypTic love to see video of him getting in that car
I thought they are what we make blood and bone out of :)
Interesting video Liam. Would love to see a “week in the life of a greenkeeper” series.
Fascinating video and much respect for our greenkeepers. Unsung hero's 😊.
Wow ! Thanks Liam and Dave for this info,I had no idea that these little blighters did so much damage to the Green's, I always thought it was the earth worms !
Do you know what...... this is one of the best golf videos I’ve seen...... this is why golf mates channel is up there with the best, I don’t know why, but I was enthralled by this video. Fantastic Liam, keep up the good work...... your not bad for a ‘Bowtener’
Ryan from Wigan 😜
Thank you
I'd be more worried about the squirrel looking for his nuts on the green 😂 - Caddyshack just came to mind LMAO. Are you paying him for guest appearances? 🤣
Lol
I would have a word with Mr Dyson. I'm sure he could sort something out to pick them up quicker.😁😁😁😁.Great video
We had one
Who is unliking this video!?!? Madness. What a great behind the scenes!! Brilliant.
Was out playing today and noticed a couple of greens had "holes" pecked in by birds. I was wondering what they were after.
Very interesting stuff and a big shout out to Dave and all the greenkeepers who keep our courses looking so good
Absolutely loving the daily uploads
Thank you
Things you never see on a green
Brilliant vlog Liam, so good to hear about the hard work and the issues that the green staff have to deal with! 👍
Excellent video. I was shouting get off the green so that the birds could get in. Didn’t think that you would be picking them up. Lol
Thr birds were on it soon as we moved on 👍👍
Just one of the many jobs our green keepers have to do to keep our courses looking good. It still amazes me sometimes that even after all their hard work , there are still some people out there who still dont repair pitch marks and divots. If we all did our bit to help, surely it would make the lives these great keepers of our courses a little less stressful. Great insight Liam
Love this video Liam it really shows just the tip of the iceberg of what the ground crew has to do to keep course looking good a big thank you to the ground crew of golf courses all over the world thanks mates.
Massive respect to the groundsman and great to publice how hard his job is
Great video and great to see this behind the scenes work and what it takes to maintain the greens on a course, brilliant....
Without Greenkeepers us Golfers wouldn't even have playable golf courses.
Heroines & Heroes all of them.
BIG Thanks to every last one.
THANK YOU
What a brilliant interesting video just shows the work our greens staff do and we just don’t have a clue what goes on. 👍
Great vid Liam, just shows how much hard work it is to keep the greens spot on.
Love this, things we don't usually see the green keepers do. lots of hard work behind the scenes to make our rounds more enjoyable. Thanks for bringing this to us Liam, I hope to see more videos like this
Well done, Mr. Dyson! Thank you for letting us look "behind the curtain" of your work!
Nice video again, Liam - what was the squirrel's score playing in the background? It had to putt in some 10-footer i reckon... (at 1:30 - 2:00 it went off as if the last one was given... ;)
Brilliant video 👍 well done Dave it's great to see a top greenkeeper with knowledge and how to resolve issues all greenkeepers are facing with life without chemicals. Well done Liam for highlighting greenkeeper problems it will go a long way for golfers to try and understand the issues and hard dedicated work of greenkeepers. We're not just here to be moaned at lol
I'm gonna have to get you to measure up my house for decorating
You must have nearly gone skint
With your measurements 😂😂😂😂
Great behind the scenes video Liam. Just one tiny bit of what grounds crews have to deal with to keep us all happily hacking around the course. Shocking how many grubs are just in that little area.
Liam great video looking forward to the rest of the seires of how a golf course is maintained. love a bit of variety !
Very interesting video. Wonder if there is that problem over here in states? A good idea is have the keeper of the greens so a how to showing proper way to fix pitch marks
Great vlog Liam. Very interesting and informative. I would love to see you do a vlog on green divot repair, highlighting the damage not repairing them can do to greens. This is a pet bug-bear of mine when I reach a green and see all the pitch marks that haven't been repaired. I've been told that if you repair a pitch mark the green will recover in 5 days, if not, then it take 5 weeks. If you can get OMP to give us a practical demonstration/advice on a 5W vs Hybrid. I'm 68 and would appreciate his/your advice. Keep up the good work.
We take greenkeepers a little for granted sometimes , they do a great job .
just wondered if it would be quicker to gather the little blighters up with a broom .
Anyway another great vlog Liam thank you :-)
We got the blower on them
@@GolfMates Ah much better !
Or possibly pass the mower over them.
I was going to suggest an industrial vacuum, but a blower is a better job. Had to laugh Liam using what looked like a coffee cup, why not a bucket 😂
Great vlog by the way 👌
Loved this. Dave explains it excellently. Greenskeepers unsung hero.
Excellent information. Learning a lot from Dave. Lunch is served.
Everyday is a school day ! Great to see the other side off the golf course ! Cheers dave.. question for dave ? Could u use a sort brush to gather them together .. or would that damage the grass ?
Very interesting pal, I like these video's it gives you a new perspective to what goes on behind the scenes at a golf course
Great video. Very satisfying to watch 😂 can’t believe how many there were on the greens the following day.
And that's another very valid factor to add to the video you did last week on green fees.
When you see what groundsmen do you see the value for the fees you pay better.
Wow. One of the most interesting videos I have seen on a golf channel. Thanks Liam.
What a fantastic insight in to the life of the green keepers well done golf mate Liam
Great vlog Liam. Its good to see what green keepers get up to .
Thank you
I'm a celebrity trial let me at em!! Great to watch and learn from Dave, very enjoyable.
Very educational
Thank you for your upload
Thank you
Great video again Liam. This is a great series of vlogs and very informative of the work the fabulous work greenkeepers have to do. They don't get enough credit from golfers. Great work lads.
Respect to Dave and all the hard working green keepers! :)
Huge respect to all green keepers, I’m chumy with my local gk here in Australia and I remember a issue with locusts and the only well best remedy was encouraging the birds in more feeders in the trees ect it did sort of help but the feral cats case on the seen 🤦🏻♂️ never ending for them boys if you ever see your green keepers/ grounds man buy them a coffee show them we love them, without them out game wouldn’t be possible 🙏👍👌
I learnt a lot during this video. I now have even more respect for the great work green keepers do. Great Vid ... cheers 👏🏻
Brilliant video. Hand picking the leatherjackets after lifting the black plastic looks back breaking. Hoover them up with a leaf blower in reverse?
Brilliant video Liam, fantastic insight and nice original content.
It's amazing just how many of them there are in just one green. Great video Liam!
Another great video Liam. Dave seems like a crackin fella as well. Defo gotta come and play your course one day!
Our greens and fairways are riddled with leather jackets. This video is genius . Liked and shared to all my mates and to my golf club👍🏻
Fantastic video this will really help me to protect my lawn. I wonder if I understand correctly that this can be done between December and mid June?
Brilliant vid Liam very informative , a bit labour intensive going round on hands and knees picking them up one by one , wouldn't you think there would be a "greenkeeping hoover " to suck them up .
What a insight to a green keepers job 👏🏻👏🏻
Tough to battle nature and keep us golfers happy
Wow!! Amazing stuff! That's unbelievable!
CADDYSHACK SQUIRREL...ITS IN THE HOLE!!! hahahah!!!
Lol
This is really good stuff Liam! I use to help out at my local golf club and was amazed at some of the jobs on their list? Us golfers really don’t fully understand or appreciate the difficulties of a green keepers job?? Thanks for bringing Dave to explain what he’s doing, and trying to achieve ..!! Great video mate..👍🏽🏌️
Very interesting. I live on a golf course in AZ and each year for a few weeks they’re everywhere on the outside of the house, and of course a few get into our home. We have lots of birds, big and small on the course so I have never seen the larvae in large numbers on the grass in the morning. Thanks for the information.
Learned something new liam didn't no that at all very interesting 🏌️♂️⛳👍like that video liam alot
Great video pal, what would be the best time to do this is it Sept and March? I think i have some in my lawn and would like to give it a try.
When I was 16, I worked at a resort that offered a nine hole and an eighteen hole course. A course properly maintained takes many hours of painstaking work. We started at 5:00, my first day the senior greens master was “showing me the ropes”. At the correct time, he says ‘Look, I’ve dropped the cupsetter in the fairway, run down and get it.’ Timing was perfect, on comes the fairway sprinklers as I was well into the fairway. Initiation day...
Brilliant idea dealing with them worms.....Greetings from across the big pond from across the big pond.
I never thought I would get the willies from a golf video and yet here we are.
Great informative video, we have same problem at our club.👍👍👍
It's like a Stephen king horror movie, night of the leather jackets. Whole new respect for the green keepers never knew about these
Lol
Liam great video. Very informative and educational
A really educative, public-service episode. So much goes into getting the course playable, much of it unseen. This year little viruses, just like little grubs, have disrupted the whole world and we akk know about it.
Absolutely awesome video mate.
Excellent video once again Liam, really interesting. 👍🏌️♀️
Liam..is it true your favorite song on RUclips is 'Jenny Baxter Story'??? I love that song.
Liam. I’m sales Director of Visqueen. You know where to come in future my friend.
Thank you phill
Look forward to seeing the next vlogs in green keeping.
Thank you