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  • noun Plural form of greenkeeper.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    A history of the year in 100 objects – part one 2010

  • 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.

    Golf in the (Wild) Kingdom 2010

  • (Mitt Romney may have the opposite problem: his campaign is all country club golfers but no caddies or greenkeepers.)

    Sarah Palin's Little Platoons 2009

  • (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

  • 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.

    Taking the Green Course 2008

  • 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.

    Taking the Green Course 2008

  • 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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • The greenkeepers are removing fallen trees and branches and the grounds are returning to some semblance of normality.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

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