Episode 162: Kurt Horne

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In Episode 162, Trent sits down with Kurt Horn, Equipment Manager at Fall Line in Butler, Georgia. Fall Line is a private club with 45 holes of golf along with hunting, fishing, and sporting clays, and Kurt is right in the middle of supporting a growing operation that runs primarily Toro equipment.

Kurt shares how he got his start as a teenager at Kelly Plantation in Destin, Florida, then moved into field service before becoming service manager at Jerry Pate. Those dealership years gave him a broad foundation, but he ultimately found his way back to the course side in what he calls his dream job.

They talk about what it looks like to truly work as a team with superintendents, the realities of sand and topdressing, favorite cordless tools, and the satisfaction of an organized tool room. Kurt also opens up about the challenge of communicating with a primarily Spanish-speaking workforce and why being approachable matters just as much as technical skill.

He shares a simple reel maintenance tip — keeping bedbar bolts in the same holes — and they dig into the bigger industry conversation around attracting and developing the next generation of technicians.

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