Brushing Up on Grounds Maintenance With GreenTek

To the untrained eye, brushing the grass on a golf course might seem just a little excessive. Of course, turfcare professionals know there is much more to brushing than just making your course look its best.

Using brushing as part of your greenkeeping and grounds maintenance offers a multitude of benefits, saving you time and money, cutting your workload, preventing disease and presenting your golf course at its very best for your players.

There are lots of reasons to include brushing in your grounds maintenance routine, such as:

• Dew dispersal – this not only improves play, but also helps to prevent fungal growth, such as fusarium, and avoids clumping of damp grass during mowing.
• Topdressing – brushing-in top dressing ensures an even distribution of sand, producing a far more even and effective spread than drag mats.
• Worm cast removal – brushing can deliver effective worm cast removal without leaving unsightly smearing or mud that clogs and blunts mower blades, provided you use the unique Flicker-Brush which is specially designed for this purpose.
• Debris removal – brushing as part of your grounds maintenance clears away debris, such as micro cores, scarifying residue, pine needles and grass cuttings, from tees, fairways, approaches and greens.
• Cleaner cuts – brushing before you cut lifts the sward, allowing for a crisper, cleaner cut, which extends the interval between mowing, and thus reduces overall mowing time through the season.

A comprehensive brush range

With brushes being so valuable and versatile for grounds maintenance teams, it’s good to know that GreenTek has such a wide range of brushes and attachments to cover brushing on all scales.

GreenTek has everything you need, from multi-brush systems that can brush the fairways of an 18-hole golf course in as little as two hours, to precision brush attachments for your greensmower that work with Thatch-Away, the world’s leading greens care system.

The GreenTek brushing range includes:

• Thatch-Away Rotary-Brushes – attaches to your Thatch-Away for light grooming, pre-cut, as well as collecting debris from your greens.
• Thatch-Away Topdressing-Brush – another Thatch-Away attachment that brushes in topdressing evenly across even the most undulating greens.
• Greens Groomer – this highly effective zig-zag brush machine lives up to its name, brushing-in topdressing and grooming your greens for a cleaner cut, providing faster, truer putting.
• Dyna-Brush – incorporating reverse drive technology that rotates counter to the direction of travel for the ultimate brushing performance, ideal for removing worm casts from greens, tees, and surrounds.
• Flicker-Brush 2.2m – a compact solution to the perennial problem of wormcasts on sports pitches, with a unique action that is designed to clear casts without smearing.
• Flicker-Brush 5.3m – a time-saving solution to wormcasts that rapidly covers whole fairways and can also fold up to create a 2.2m topdressing brush.
• Multi-Brush – the cost-effective, time-saving solution for clearing dew off large areas quickly and easily, from fairways to football pitches.
• Maxi-Brush – with a 5.4m width for rapid daily brushing of sports pitches, that folds to create a 1.8m intensive topdressing brush. Ideal for synthetic turfcare too.

Brush up on our grounds maintenance range

To find out more about the benefits of brushing, as well as the comprehensive range of brushing machines and attachments available from GreenTek, click on the links above, check out the brushes section of our website, or download our 2025 Innovative Turfcare Equipment catalogue to see our complete greens and grounds maintenance range.

If you’d like to see a GreenTek brush in action on your course, book your free on-site demo today. Our expert team will bring along your choice of GreenTek brushes and grounds maintenance equipment and answer any questions you have about the best choice for you.

At the end of the day, there is much more to brushing than meets the untrained eye. And with GreenTek, you can enjoy all those benefits to create an immaculately manicured course.