Continuous, never-ending improvement
Get measurable results from golf course maintenance
Empower your maintenance team to exceed member expectations, round after round. Our data-driven approach enhances course conditions, boosts staff productivity and maximises operational efficiency.
Why partner with Carr Golf Services?
We manage high-performing maintenance operations at 23 golf facilities like yours. Our team can offer your course manager and greenkeepers 120+ years of combined industry expertise.
For one monthly invoice, you're guaranteed:
- Custom year-round maintenance and agronomic planning
- Predictive labour hour models and resource allocation
- Staff scheduling, training and standardised procedures
- Maintenance inputs, materials, fuels and course accessories
- Fleet management and access to cutting-edge machinery
- Course performance benchmarking and in-depth reports
Ed Pettit, Managing Director, Carr Golf Services
Achieve affordable, customer-focussed golf course excellence
Ed explains how our maintenance playbook delivers consistent, incremental course improvements that upgrade your golf experiences and support commercial growth.
"For golf clubs committed to improving course conditions and long-term sustainability, we provide a simple and effective solution."
SIMPLIFIED ADMINISTRATION
Increased productivity with less paperwork and more financial control
You likely invest plenty in maintenance – time, effort, resources, and expense. And yet, the performance and presentation of your course could still improve.
Then there's managing suppliers and keeping track of sustainability regulations. It can be an arduous and thankless task for course managers – and costly.
Carr Golf removes this burden for a single, fixed-price monthly payment.
All-in-one course maintenance management
Our comprehensive management system equips your course manager and greenkeepers for sustained, cost-effective success. So they can do more, in fewer hours, with less waste.
Our unmatched support includes:
- Performance management and on-site visits
- Task assignments and workflow analysis
- Course and product regulation compliance
- Supplier relationships and product purchasing
- Asset management and fleet upgrades
BENCHMARKING EXCELLENCE
Track your golf course performance for continuous improvements
Game-changing maintenance and agronomic programs start with a clear plan and specific goals. That’s what makes our data-led performance benchmarking so powerful.
It ensures you can monitor, measure, refine and repeat enhancements to course conditions. And course conditioning matters most to your members and customers.
Our tailored programs target everything from green speed and soil temperature to turf definition, cut heights, moisture content and surface smoothness.
You can track your course improvements against our 12 key performance indicators (KPIs) and optimise your plan based on the data. Month after month.
Stat: Our typical customers see a 30-40% increase in their KPI scores after one year.
Get in touch to learn more about our service.
Discover our proven formula for your success
Your partnership with Carr Golf is founded on the four pillars of our formula.
Together, let’s turn your maintenance team into a well-oiled machine and elevate your course standards to new heights.
- Data Driven. Base every decision on measurable data to optimise maintenance activities, turf treatments, team performance, course conditions and customer experience.
- Driving Standards. Achieve agronomic excellence, lasting biodiversity and tournament-ready surfaces through standardised operating procedures, policies and best practices.
- Performance Management. Equip your team to excel with detailed planning, defined roles, clear goals, hands-on training, performance data and workflow analysis.
- Financial Control. Maximise productivity and operational efficiency via weekly labour-hour and resource forecasts designed to reduce downtime and needless costs.
“The introduction of monthly KPI monitoring has been a huge benefit to us. There has been continuous improvement thanks to Carr Golf.”
JOIN A GROWING COLLECTIVE
In our privileged Members Lounge
You will get access to our network of industry-leading suppliers and partners. And your business can reap the rewards of our collective purchasing power.
That means market-best prices on:
- Fertiliser, bio-stimulants, chemicals, sand and seed
- Diesel, petrol, oil and lubricants
- Cups, pins, flags, rope and stakes
- Cutting-edge equipment, tools and machinery
Another perk is our regional hubs. There, technicians service and repair your fleet for peak performance. And our state-of-the-art machinery and technology will save you time and money.
See what other privileged Members have to say.
CASE STUDY
Edmondstown Golf Club
Edmondstown Golf Club engaged Carr Golf to support its greenkeeping team with additional expertise to further enhance course conditioning and gain greater cost certainty.
“The golf course has improved dramatically since we engaged Carr Golf,” says Seamus Given, Chairman Course & Gardens Committee.
“The introduction of monthly KPI monitoring (key performance indicators), which we communicate to members, has been a huge benefit to us. There has been continuous improvement, thanks to Carr Golf.”
The club has also turned to Carr Golf to help it with the increasing regulation of inputs, including fertilisers and pesticides.
“Regulation has changed dramatically in the last few years, so Carr Golf’s concise agronomic plan is a great help,” says club General Manger, John O’Sullivan. “We are still responsible, but having the agronomic plan makes it easy to submit the data.”
CASE STUDY
Corrstown Golf Club
Facing financial challenges brought on by global events, Corrstown Golf Club turned to Carr Golf to better manage costs and availability of supplies.
“There has been a big evolution in the way golf clubs have been managed and because course maintenance is one of the biggest expenses, we felt the best option was to go with Carr Golf,” says club Chairman Dónal Ó Hóbáin.
“They are a big player and they have been able to achieve a security of supply and, by bulk-buying certain materials, secure prices that are much reduced.
“In terms of machinery, Carr Golf’s professionalism, knowledge and scale has been invaluable.
“The reports are very scientific and fact based, which are very good, and the standard of the golf course is improving year on year. Members are the biggest critics of your course, but they frequently comment on the excellence of the course.”
OUR STORY
A family business with golf in our DNA
Carr Golf Services has been helping clubs and multi-course operations create world-class golfing experiences since 2010.
Our philosophy is simple. Continuous, never-ending golf course improvements through customised maintenance programs.
We do this with expertise, collaboration and proven processes.
Meet our experts
Our team specialises in agronomic planning, maintenance strategy, data analysis, training and development, purchasing, and fleet management.
They oversee 340 staff and a 500-strong fleet across 23 golf venues.
Your Team Leaders
ED PETTIT
Managing Director
Ed leads Carr Golf’s course maintenance division, ensuring the team delivers best practice agronomic solutions. Ed specialises in asset management, strategic planning and golf course maintenance. Before joining Carr Golf, Ed worked at and developed some of Ireland’s best-known golf clubs and 5-star resorts.
IAIN RITCHIE
Regional Superintendent
Iain has over 40 years’ experience in golf course maintenance, notably 18 years as Links Superintendent at Portmarnock Golf Club, presenting the course for the 1991 Walker Cup and several Irish Opens. Iain joined Carr Golf in 2010 as Regional Superintendent and currently oversees seven courses .
AINDRIU JACKSON
Regional Superintendent
Aindriu has 25 years’ experience in golf course maintenance and club management, specialising in modern golf course construction and grow-ins. A leader in agronomic planning, particularly scheduling, man-hour calculations, equipment suitability, scientific nutrient input calculation and disease ID and treatment.
Talk To Us
Click on the button to contact Ed Pettit directly and discuss your club's requirements, and learn more about partnering with Carr Golf.
Built with Shorthand