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Sports Turf Management

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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.

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To everyone at Melbourne Polytechnic, thanks for all your hard work and especially Doug Agnew whose personality made being in the classroom such fun. I’m looking forward to a great career in this wonderful industry.
Darren Wardle
Outstanding Apprentice/Trainee of the Year 2024 and Certificate III in Sports Turf Management (Apprenticeship) AHC31319 Graduate
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