It's clear that the team of White, McIntosh, and Kahn possesses an extensive and diverse skill set encompassing virtually every aspect of golf course management and operations. Their collective experience and expertise enable them to effectively address a wide range of challenges and responsibilities associated with managing different types of neighborhood golf courses. Here's a summary of their capabilities based on the tasks listed:
- Course Maintenance: Includes managing its employees, mowing greens and fairways, installing and operating irrigation systems, setting mowing heights, spreading fertilizer, treating ponds with chemicals, spreading top dressing, and managing weeds, and keeping records.
- Golf Operations: Encompasses managing cart fleets, preparing food menus, setting up point-of-sale (POS) systems, managing pro shop inventory, giving group and private golf lessons, managing membership rosters, managing coins for making change, and setting all prices.
- Facilities Management: Involves paving parking lots, installing grips, firing up kitchen stoves, operating dishwashers, stacking chairs, setting dress codes, securing fuel pumps, managing floodlighting, improving security, and installing security systems.
- Financial Management: Includes preparing detailed budgets, managing accounts payable and accounts receivable, setting up banking and credit card processing, making bank deposits, financing golf courses, purchasing and selling golf courses, and managing coins for making change.
- Marketing and Promotion: Involves preparing advertisements, designing billboards, designing scorecards, managing memberships, and managing in-house communications.
- Administrative Duties: Encompasses hiring personnel, writing membership documents, conducting management meetings, managing bent grass and Bermuda grass, maintaining log books, meeting with city officials, and designing club stationary.
- Miscellaneous Tasks: Includes counting cars, counting cash, serving banquets, serving cheeseburgers, filling vending machines, repairing cart tires and brakes, inflating tires, treating for weeds, replacing spark plugs, trimming trees, and so much more.
With experience, sensitive to the neighborhood, White, McIntosh, and Kahn are all-around professionals in golf. They can track virtually any challenge associated with golf course management from green speeds, operating kitchens, pro shops, and serving beer. Their record touches Private, Public, Municipal, Executive, and Floodlit Par-3 Golf Courses. It further underscores their across the board expertise and effectiveness in golf.