Golf Course Groundskeeper

Position Summary

The Groundskeeper is responsible for supporting the daily care, appearance, and playability of The King and Prince Golf Club. This role helps maintain greens, tees, fairways, bunkers, cart paths, landscaping, and natural areas to ensure a high-quality golf experience for resort guests, members, and daily-fee players.

Because the course is located in a coastal St. Simons Island setting with marshes, maritime vegetation, wildlife, salt air, humidity, and frequent seasonal weather changes, the Groundskeeper must take pride in detailed outdoor work, environmental care, and consistent course presentation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain golf course grounds, including greens, tees, fairways, roughs, bunkers, cart paths, landscaped areas, and practice areas.
• Mow, trim, edge, blow, rake, and clean assigned areas according to daily course maintenance standards.
• Assist with bunker maintenance, including raking, edging, debris removal, sand distribution, and drainage upkeep.
• Support turf health by assisting with watering, fertilizing, aerification, overseeding, topdressing, sod work, weed control, and other agronomic practices as directed.
• Help maintain irrigation systems by reporting leaks, broken heads, dry spots, washouts, or drainage issues.
• Prepare the course for daily play by setting tee markers, changing cups, moving ropes and signs, emptying trash, removing debris, and ensuring a clean guest-ready appearance.
• Operate and care for golf course maintenance equipment such as walk mowers, riding mowers, utility carts, string trimmers, blowers, bunker rakes, rollers, and small hand tools.
• Maintain natural and landscaped areas in a way that supports the coastal character of the property, including careful work around marsh edges, trees, native plants, and environmentally sensitive areas.
• Assist with storm preparation and cleanup, including removal of branches, leaves, pine straw, sand, standing water, and o...