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Throughout my time at Olds College I have never felt as engaged as I have in TRF 3100. Having our constant discussions has been one of my favourite and most eye opening experiences at school. The credit for this would largely be the environment created for this class as well as the topics of discussionContinue reading “TRF 3100 Final Reflection”

The first week of TRF 3100 has been a little different than most classes.  Taking the assignments and looking at them from more of a leadership role has been an extremely beneficial experience that will help all of us be more prepared in the future to produce a strong, safe work environment for our employees.  Continue reading “TRF 3100 Midterm Reflection”

Learning the inner working involved with producing a functional budget as well as the ability to cut that budget has been extremely informative. Although my spreadsheet knowledge is still improving, my group and I managed to produce a working calculator to breakdown our budget which gave us the ability to understand how costs can beContinue reading “TRF 3000 Journal”

Over the past few weeks we have gotten the opportunity to learn and understand the overall operations of a golf course. By focusing on departments aside from maintenance we have gained a basic understanding of revenue that the club can bring in as well as how to increase those numbers and make changes based onContinue reading “TRF 4200 Reflective Journal”

Throughout this golf season managing school assignments with work responsibilities has been a real challenge. being able to manage both sides while maintaining a work life balance has been its own lesson for the year and one that superintendents and assistants must constantly work at to be both efficient and mentally healthy. I have foundContinue reading “Final Report Reflective Journal”

The 2021 golf season has flown by. It has been a great season but as everyone in our industry knows, new challenges present themselves constantly. With the amount of smoke we have had in the Alberta Mountains mixed with high temperatures we have had more disease pressure this season than all my years at StewartContinue reading “TRF 2820 Reflective Journal”

Equality! Such an important topic, not only in the work place but society as a whole. Part of managing a crew is ensuring equal opportunity for all staff members. It is important to get to know the team and make sure everyone gets the opportunity to learn new things as well as work in aContinue reading “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within the Profession”

Over the past few weeks we have been looking at the environmental impacts we have around the golf course. This has been extremely informative and interesting to see which courses work this into their structure and day to day plans. Working with a course that is Audubon certified, I have been lucky to learn howContinue reading “TRF 2640 Reflective Journal”

Over the past week we have been working with the Rainbird irrigation computer program. This has been quite the experience, with all the technical difficulties that have been presented however, we managed to learn a lot about the system and play around to make working irrigation programs. Although we run a Toro system at myContinue reading “TRF 2660 Entry 2”

This week in our irrigation class we learned how to audit an irrigation system. With my limited knowledge of irrigation, I found this to be extremely informative. By learning the correct way to audit and set up an irrigation system we can ensure our system is more efficient, reducing dry spots throughout the course whileContinue reading “TRF 2660 Irrigation”