What Is a Part Time Golf Course and How to Become One

By ZipRecruiter Marketplace Research Team

Part-time golf course jobs include retail and membership sales, guest and member services, caddying, maintenance, and landscaping. As a part-time worker, you typically work 35 or fewer hours per week. The duties of maintenance and landscaping workers include repairing golf course equipment, buildings, and facilities and maintaining and improving the grounds. In a sales job, your responsibilities focus on making retail sales for things like snacks, drinks, equipment, and golf cart or club rentals or selling club memberships to guests. Caddies help golfers transport their clubs and bags through the course. Administrative roles focus on guest and member relations, account management, and the overseeing of sales.

Each part-time position at a golf course requires different qualifications, but for any job that interacts with golf course patrons, like sales and member services, you must have excellent communication skills. Part-time maintenance and landscape golf course jobs require a high school diploma or GED certificate, although some golf courses prefer workers certified in maintenance or landscaping. In a sales position, you need a high school diploma or GED certificate and some sales experience. Administration roles require some admin experience and, often, an associate degree. As an administrator for guest and member services, you need intermediate computer skills and must be able to multitask.