Greenkeeping Guide Volume 1: A Beginner's Handbook for Healthy Turf

Greenkeeping Guide: A Beginner's Handbook for Healthy Turf offers new turf managers a clear and practical foundation for building healthy and reliable playing conditions. Drawing on more than three decades of hands on experience across Alberta and British Columbia, Wallace Briggs provides steady guidance that helps superintendents, assistants, and crew members develop confident and efficient operations.

The book follows the natural rhythm of the seasons and explains how irrigation, equipment care, and disease prevention work together as a single system. It shows how simple daily habits create healthier turf and stronger teams, and how modern tools such as smart irrigation, GPS mapping, and emerging diagnostic technology can support better decisions and long term sustainability.

Whether you manage a community course or a private club, this handbook serves as a reliable mentor. It blends foundational agronomy with practical field experience, giving new turf managers the confidence to deliver dependable conditions while protecting the course and controlling costs.