For those that may not know, I'm Kirk Spieth, grounds superintendent at Beverly Country Club located in Chicago, IL. I've been the superintendent at Beverly CC going on 10 years. Some background on myself; I've got 23yrs of experience in the turf grass industry which began at Wedgewood G&CC in Powell, OH as a simple summer job. After working my way up and spending a few years as Assistant Superintendent at Wedgewood, I moved to the Chicagoland area to work as the North Course Superintendent at Olympia Fields. The 5 years of work at Olympia Fields groomed me well for the opportunity to become the head Superintendent at Beverly Country Club in 2011.
Over the past decade at Beverly, we have taken on many projects, hosted the 2011 Western Jr Am and the 2014 Western Am. We most recently completed a complete golf course restoration led by architects Ron Prichard and Tyler Rae. There has been much work and excitement at Beverly over the last two seasons that its created new sets of questions from the membership. I have decided to begin a blog to help better communicate with the membership of Beverly on how the grounds department handled not only the restoration but also how it handles the new daily maintenance of the golf course. This blog will keep you updated on golf course projects, issues and concerns. You can expect to get monthly updates on an array of topics ranging from bunker maintenance and major projects to how we do daily course set up and ball mark/divot repair. The monthly posts will be full of information, pictures and videos that will help illustrate the hard work our staff puts in to keeping Beverly one of the top courses in the country.
My hope is this blog will help answer the many questions members have in regards to golf course maintenance and help open a line of communication directly to the grounds department. I look forward to answering questions and providing you with a more in depth answers as to why we do certain things on the golf course. Please feel free to follow the blog by hitting the icon on the right. We will also send out a link monthly to the membership when a new update is posted.
Kirk Spieth
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