ABSTRACT
It is not uncommon to hear employers of labour complain about the frequent turnover of staff. If that creates difficulties we can imagine how much worse it would be for the staff if the managing director changed every two or three years. This is what happens to greenkeepers and is probably the worst element in their task. They establish a happy fruitful relationship with one Green Convener then suddenly he is called off and a substitute sent on. Human nature being rather more difficult to change than the pH of a fairway, there will inevitably be times when relations are less harmonious than they should be. The wife of one American golf course superintendent (as they were called in the USA before moving up to course manager) once wrote that she knew when the Greens [sic] Chairman was a bad one. It reacted throughout her home life. For a highly trained specialist, ill-considered interference can be an anathema.
