COURSE CARE

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.

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 WEST ROXBURY & HAMMOND STREET 
The golf course will be removing several trees that are dead and/or high risk. Police details will be used to ensure commuter safety.  This will be a two day project that will be started on Monday, March 25th.

DRAINAGE CULVERT REMOVAL 
The golf course will be removing a section of a collapsed culvert on hole 8 in early April.  Play disruptions can be expected.  We do anticipate this project taking several days to complete, with a positive long term benefit of providing enhanced drainage capabilities.  

UPCOMING
MAINTENANCE

SPRING AERATION: MAY 28 & 29
Greens and approaches will be aerated and sanded.  Fairways will be verticutted and sanded as well.

FALL AERATION: SEPTEMBER 3 & 4
Greens will be aerated and sanded.