The Brookline Golf Course will be an excellent playing experience for our golfers featuring excellent conditions that provide consistent playing surfaces, classic architectural features, and a great open space for the Town of Brookline. The Golf Course will rely on leadership, best management practices, and planning to achieve this vision.
COURSE CARE
MICHAEL MURPHY, GCSAA
Golf Course Superintendent, Class A
Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England, Board of Directors
Massachusetts Certified Pesticide Applicator
Mike Murphy grew up in Wareham, where he began his love of golf at age 9. At 18, he started his turf management career at The Kittansett Club in Marion, MA. There he learned the intricacies of gold course management and developed his skills in providing the best turf conditions for the game. From there, Mike obtained his State Pesticide License and studied Agronomy at Rutgers University.
Prior to coming to Brookline Golf Course, Mike held course management positions at Pine Brook Country Club in Weston and a municipal course in Natick. Joining Brookline in 2003, then known as Putterham Meadows, Mike became the steward for a course long neglected due to lack of budget and deferred maintenance and infrastructure work. Since then, under Mike’s leadership, the course has improved year by year to become the gem it is today.
MAINTENANCE
ALERTS
TREE WORK ALONG HAMMOND STREET
The golf course will be removing 2 invasive trees that are along the property line that abuts Hammond Street, directly behind the 1st green. These trees are inteferring with the fence, sunlight and air circulation for the first green, and are covered in poison ivy. Additional tree pruning will take place in the oak trees adjacent to these trees. Project will commence in early April.
UPCOMING
MAINTENANCE
SPRING AERATION: MAY 30 & 31
Greens and approaches will be aerated and sanded. Fairways will be verticutted and sanded as well.
FALL AERATION: SEPTEMBER 5 & 6
Greens will be aerated and sanded.
