HNC Golf and Sports Turf Management

HNC Golf and Sports Turf Management

Introduction
This course provides an opportunity for you to gain an exciting and varied qualification, which is well respected in the industry. It will appeal to students who wish to develop practical skills, complemented by relevant theory. This course has been welcomed by employers in the industry and relies on close links between the college and the workplace.

The specialist facilities provided at Reaseheath include a nine-hole golf course affiliated to the EGU. This popular golf facility is maintained, along with the college's excellent playing fields, with a range of cutting edge turf machinery and irrigation systems.
Our foundation degree students have thrived on the experience of visiting sporting venues in North Carolina, Spain, Scotland, England and Wales, where they have been able to study climate-related regimes of turf management.

Course Structure
HNC modules*
Year 1

• Principles of Horticultural Science*
  
• Surveying and Levelling*
  
• Conservation in a Horticultural Setting
  
• Golf Course Maintenance and Mechanisation
  
• Business Studies with Law*
  
• Academic and Professional Development*
  
• Work Based Learning 1 and 2
  

10 week placement

Year 2

• Turf Science*
  
• Event Organisation*
  
• Sports Turf Design and Construction*
  
• Root Zone Technology*
  
• Work Based Project*
  
• Finance
  
• Marketing and Human Resource Management*
  
• Work Based Learning 3
  

Length of the course

• 
  Foundation Degree full-time: 2 years includes a 10 week work placement
  
• 
  HNC part-time: 1 day per week for 2 years
  

Application

Full-time:

• Apply through UCAS
  Course code: KN32
  
• 
  Institution code: HAUC H12
  
• 
  Campus code: R
  

Part time:

• Apply directly to Reaseheath (application form available at the back of our prospectus) or online.
  

Further study

• Honours degree in related subjects
  

Career options

• Golf course management
  
• Sports facility management
  
• Agronomist
  
• Technical/advisory roles
  
• Teaching