Seasonal Intern

Vineyard Golf Club is well known as the premier sustainable golf course in America.  We provide our membership with a first class golf experience while managing the turf and landscape with unique strategies.  Our daily goal is to provide respectable playability conditions without using our restrictions as an excuse.  Due to our severe restrictions, we tend to use more labor and resources to achieve our goal(s).  Given our strict restrictions, we don't have the luxury to call the person "down the road" for advice or compare strategies.  It has allowed us to conduct our own in-house research.  We started this program a few years ago and it has been very rewarding as we have made progress to solve some of our many battles.

**We will be posting a separate seasonal internship for the golf course and grounds, this is a unique position & opportunity.  This person will help on the golf course at certain times though**

Our two previous Research Managers have moved onto successful roles.  We are now looking to try a different approach and recruit a Research Intern as he / she might move into this role full time post internship.  

Some of the unique things we are currently working on:
-"Super Bent" trials (as we are hoping to re-grass our greens in the near future)
-Crabgrass control on bentgrass using compaction
-Crabgrass control on roughs and native using iron programs
-Fraze mowing to eliminate seed banks
-Bluemuda varieties for summer range tee option
-Using unique programs such as peroxide and strict ferrous sulfate for bent health
-Clipping yields
-Demo new equipment / tools for research (light attacking fungi i.e.)
-Many  others ...

I am looking for a student whether in school or graduating, who may want to continue their career in golf or the turf world who has an admiration for how turfgrass functions, survival, and recovery.  He / she will meet with the Director of Grounds frequently as this role will require detailed and frequent data collection.  Effective communication will be necessary as we tend to adapt our trials on the fly.