Combine your love of sports and gardening with this specialist career
Melbourne Polytechnic can help you gain the skills to maintain healthy sports fields around the world.
A meticulously maintained green is essential to many sports. By studying how to manage and care for turfgrass surfaces, you can play a crucial role in the sporting industry with a specialist career that lets you enjoy the outdoors.
Gain skills that can take you around the world where you can manage single or multi-use ground used by professional athletes. At Melbourne Polytechnic, you’ll receive training from industry experts in a variety of areas including plant recognition, landscape construction, installing and operating irrigation systems, pest and disease control, water treatment, chemical use, and more.
From taking care of golf courses to national sporting facilities and local community grounds, this field is wide open.
Sports Turf Management Courses
Certificate III in Sports Turf Management - Apprenticeship AHC31319
Your specialist career starts here with our Certificate III in Sports Turf Management AHC31319 (Apprenticeship). Use your eye for excellence in the world of sports, and your interest in horticulture and facilities management to excel in your career of Sports Turf Management.
Diploma of Sports Turf Management AHC51024
Advance your career with our Diploma of Sports Turf Management AHC51024. Prepare yourself for management duties at golf courses, cricket pitches, bowling greens, sports fields or turf farms.
Bachelor of Agriculture and Technology - Sports Turf Science and Management
Melbourne Polytechnic's unique Bachelor of Agriculture and Technology (Sports Turf Science and Management) is the only higher education offering in this field in Australia, backed by the ASTMA.
Certificate III in Sports Turf Management - Non-Apprenticeship AHC31319
Your specialist career starts here with our Certificate III in Sports Turf Management AHC31319 (Non-apprenticeship). Use your eye for excellence in the world of sports, and your interest in horticulture and facilities management to excel in your career of Sports Turf Management.