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taskTracker, a web-based
application for monitoring
labor costs. It allows Flaherty
to better track labor and
manage maintenance
activities at his club.
"We've always worked pretty
well together, which is kind
of a rarity in the industry,"
Flaherty said. "Because of
that he saw me struggling
trying to digitally track labor
to get rid of our whiteboard."
Sharp, who learned how to
write code to simplify his job,
offered to write a web-based
program and had it running in
two months time.
The application stores and
retrieves labor data from
all areas of golf course
operations, including bunker
maintenance, greens speed,
hand-watering fairways and
maintenance or landscaping
on other parts of the property,
such as the tennis courts and
clubhouse.
Regional superintendents
who began to use the system
The Valley Club was chartered in 1996 by
a small group of avid local golfers who just
wanted a place to play golf with their friends.
