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- noun Plural form of
greenkeeper .
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Examples
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Each morning the 'greenkeepers' are out on the course, the momentual fleet of junks, requisitioned to pluck the nasty little green stuff from the Yellow Sea.
Telegraph Blogs 2009
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Each morning the 'greenkeepers' are out on the course, the momentual fleet of junks, requisitioned to pluck the nasty little green stuff from the Yellow Sea.
Telegraph Blogs 2009
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The Gwent rain came in deluges on the Friday and Sunday of the 38th Ryder Cup pushing the competition into a Monday finish and had it not been for the soaking greenkeepers, drowned rats with über mop devices they would be playing still.
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The well-regarded course at the Hans Merensky resort north of Kruger National Park, rife with baboons, monkeys and water bucks, is only partially fenced; greenkeepers keep track of potentially dangerous animals that enter the enclave and remove them when necessary.
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(Mitt Romney may have the opposite problem: his campaign is all country club golfers but no caddies or greenkeepers.)
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(Mitt Romney may have the opposite problem: his campaign is all country club golfers but no caddies or greenkeepers.)
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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When spreading any chemicals, the greenkeepers say they give a wide berth to the course's ponds and to Rae's Creek to minimize runoff.
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Michael Hurdzan, a golf-course designer and consultant, concedes that nature and golf courses have not always gotten along; 50 years ago or so, greenkeepers routinely used products loaded with cadmium, lead, arsenic and a substance later known as Agent Orange.
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The greenkeepers didn't like it either, so before long what was left of the golfer was swept into the rough, according to sources at the club.
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The greenkeepers are removing fallen trees and branches and the grounds are returning to some semblance of normality.
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