Golf Superintendent: City of Elizabethton

Golf Superintendent: City of ElizabethtonGolf Superintendent: City of Elizabethton

Company - City of Elizabethton 185 Buck Van Huss Dr, Elizabethton, TN 37643

The Golf Superintendent role manages the playing surfaces and grounds at Elizabethton Golf Club for the City of Elizabethton. The position is in Elizabethton, Tennessee, at a listed salary of $64,875.20. The public course sits at 185 Buck Van Huss Dr and has 18 holes, a par of 72, and 6,470 yards. The role covers the maintenance and development of a municipal golf course. The application record was posted on August 24, 2026, through the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America Career Center.

The job places municipal golf work in Elizabethton within a public facility that also has a driving range, practice areas, lessons, tournaments, and outings. The course has a golf shop and a membership program alongside daily public play. The superintendent works with the golf professional, course crew, city personnel, vendors, and players as turf and facility needs change.

Employer: City of ElizabethtonCourse: Elizabethton Golf Club, 185 Buck Van Huss Dr, Elizabethton, TN 37643An applicant's materials should identify turf-management experience, crew leadership, equipment knowledge, and any pesticide or irrigation credentials that apply to the work. The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America Career Center handles the public application record and gives candidates a central place to review the position details.

An 18-Hole Public Course

Elizabethton Golf Club is an 18-hole, par-72 facility that measures 6,470 yards. The course is open to the public and operates from 185 Buck Van Huss Dr in Elizabethton. A golf shop, driving range, practice areas, lessons, tournaments, and outings connect the playing surfaces to several daily operating needs.

The facility's superintendent must account for golfer access while maintenance crews work across greens, tees, fairways, rough, landscaped areas, and practice ground. Tournament and outing schedules add fixed preparation windows, while lessons and public play limit when crews can close or disturb a part of the course. The combination requires maintenance planning that follows both agronomic conditions and the course calendar.

Daily Turf And Grounds Work

Golf-course superintendent work combines turf science with crew scheduling, equipment decisions, purchasing, and budget control. Daily checks cover mowing conditions, irrigation performance, drainage, surface wear, divots, ball marks, litter, plant health, and weather damage. Seasonal plans extend into seeding, sodding, topdressing, aeration, verticutting, tree care, and recovery after heat, drought, heavy rain, or winter injury.

Superintendent work also includes a clear management layer. The lead schedules and trains maintenance employees, sets safe operating procedures, reviews equipment condition, controls supplies, and coordinates outside contractors when construction, drainage, or irrigation work reaches the course. Budget decisions connect payroll, fuel, parts, fertilizer, chemicals, and replacement equipment to the playing conditions required by the facility.

Turf and plant care across greens, tees, fairways, rough, trees, shrubs, and landscaped areasIrrigation, drainage, water-source tracking, and weather-related recoveryEquipment safety, maintenance, purchasing, and capital replacement planningMaintenance crew hiring, training, scheduling, evaluation, and supervisionOperating budgets, inventory records, vendor coordination, and regulatory complianceWater And Environmental Planning

Water management begins with an inventory of irrigation systems, ponds, wells, pumps, drainage paths, and usage records. A superintendent adjusts irrigation to soil conditions, weather, plant demand, and play requirements rather than treating every area the same. Fertilizer and pesticide decisions require application records, secure storage, safe handling, trained staff, and attention to state and federal rules.

GCSAA's state BMP guides include Tennessee resources and cover environmental stewardship across golf facilities. A site plan can assign responsibility for water conservation, nutrient use, pesticide handling, emergency response, and recordkeeping. The plan also gives the maintenance crew a repeatable process when weather or course conditions change.

Environmental planning remains tied to playability. Irrigation that delivers water to the right zo