Greenkeeper and groundsman
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As a greenkeeper or groundsman, you work with large green areas where the quality of the grass and surface is crucial. You learn to create and maintain lawns that are even, strong and ready for sports or recreational purposes. The work combines professional knowledge, practical techniques and tasks where both the details and the whole matter.
During the training, you choose whether you want to be a greenkeeper or groundsman.
As a greenkeeper or groundsman, you work with large green areas where the quality of the grass and surface is crucial. You learn to create and maintain lawns that are even, strong and ready for sports or recreational purposes. The work combines professional knowledge, practical techniques and tasks where both the details and the whole matter.
During the training, you choose whether you want to be a greenkeeper or groundsman.
How the training takes place
The training starts at Techcollege, where you are introduced to the core areas of the profession — including grass, soil, water, fertilizer, plant knowledge, materials, and safety. You learn to understand how different conditions affect growth and quality, and how to plan a care effort.
Then you will be trained at a place where work is done on golf courses, stadiums or larger green areas. Here you will become part of everyday life and be given tasks as you become ready for them. You will learn to mow, care for, maintain, measure and work with both machines and hand tools.
Everyday life in learning
In your apprenticeship, you will work with the care and maintenance of lawns and plantings. You will mow grass at different heights, make adjustments according to the weather, control weeds, care for plantings and work with drainage and water conditions.
You will gradually gain more responsibility for planning, quality and operations — and learn to combine professional knowledge with practical routines in an environment where precision matters a lot.
In your apprenticeship, you will work with the care and maintenance of lawns and plantings. You will mow grass at different heights, make adjustments according to the weather, control weeds, care for plantings and work with drainage and water conditions.
You will gradually gain more responsibility for planning, quality and operations — and learn to combine professional knowledge with practical routines in an environment where precision matters a lot.
Start your education
Ready to get started? Here you will find the upcoming start dates for the program.
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Application deadline & start date - 10.08.2026
Application deadline & start date - 18.01.2027
Frequently Asked Questions
The education lasts up to 4.5 years and alternates between school and apprenticeship.
You can take the basic course at Techcollege . After the basic course, you continue your education at AMU Nordjylland , where the main course is completed.
After the basic course, you must choose between two specializations:
Greenkeeper
As a greenkeeper, you work with the construction and maintenance of golf courses.
You will learn to:
Construction and maintenance of greens and fairways
Ensure optimal growing conditions for grass
Suitable planting such as shrubs and trees
Working with both machines and hand tools
There is a focus on precision, quality and overall impression.
Groundsman
As a groundsman, you work with lawns at, for example, football stadiums and other sports facilities.
You will learn to:
Prepare and maintain sports fields
Ensure uniform and durable turf
Work with care, fertilization and disease control
Maintain areas so that they meet the requirements of professional sports
The focus is on functionality, durability and precision.
During the training, you will learn how to create and maintain grass areas so that they appear even, healthy and ready for use - for example on golf courses and football stadiums.
You will learn, among other things, how to:
Mowing grass at different heights
Create optimal growth conditions
Working with fertilizer and nutrition
Control weeds chemically and mechanically
Managing diseases and pests
Work with cultural engineering and civil engineering
If you work with golf courses, you also learn to care for flowers, shrubs and trees.
You will receive training in, for example:
Grass and growing conditions
Biology and science
Mathematics
Weeds and plant health
Water and nutrition
Plant knowledge
Planting care
The teaching combines practical work and classroom teaching.
Once you have completed the education, you can work as:
Greenkeeper at a golf course
Groundsman at a stadium or other sports facility
You will become a specialist in creating and maintaining green areas, where quality, precision and operation are crucial. Your work helps to form the framework for both leisure life and professional sports.
For example, you can work on:
Golf courses
Football stadiums
Sports facilities
Other larger green areas
To start the main course, you must have an apprenticeship - also called a training agreement.
An apprenticeship means that you are employed as a student in a company and enter into an agreement about your education. This is where you learn the subject in practice and become part of a workplace.
You can apply for an apprenticeship with companies yourself, and the school will guide and support you in the process of applying and contacting companies.
If you do not find an apprenticeship immediately, you have the opportunity to receive school training if the education is offered with school training.
School-based training means that you complete the practical part of the education at school instead of in a company. Here you work with the same professional goals and competencies that you would otherwise learn in an apprenticeship.
This means that you can continue your education even if you do not have an apprenticeship from the start.
A vocational education is divided into two parts: basic course and main course .
The basic course
The basic course is the first part of the education and takes place at school.
If you come directly from 9th or 10th grade, you start in Basic Course 1. Here you spend the first half of the year being introduced to the educational field and learning the basic subjects and working methods.
If you do not come directly from primary school – or if you already have an apprenticeship – you start with Basic Course 2. Here you work purposefully with the education you have chosen and get ready for the internship and main course.
The main course
The main course is the part of the education where you alternate between school and internship in a company.
This means that you both receive instruction at school and learn the subject in practice at a workplace.
To start the main course, you must have an apprenticeship (a training agreement) with a company.
There are three ways to meet the entry requirements:
1) You have an apprenticeship
If you have a training agreement with a company, you automatically meet the admission requirements.
2) You meet the grade requirements
You must have:
Passed 9th or 10th grade
At least 02 on average in both Danish and mathematics
Passed the primary school leaving exam
If it has been less than a year since you finished primary school, you must be assessed as ready for education and submit your study choice portfolio.
You must send your diploma with your application.
3) Entrance exam
If you do not meet the requirements, you can take an entrance exam.
If you apply for Basic Course 2, you will need to attend an interview before you can be admitted.
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