Brian Hollingsworth, Director of Golf Maintenance

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Brian Hollingsworth, Director of Golf Maintenance Brian Hollingsworth serves as the director of golf maintenance at the Dataw Island Club.

Brian Hollingsworth
Director of Golf Maintenance

Brian Hollingsworth serves as the director of golf maintenance at the Dataw Island Club. His primary role is to direct the overall operation of the golf maintenance department through the preparation of budget and capital expenditures. Other responsibilities include facilitating member communications and public relations through articles written for club publications; actively participating in meetings, and speaking engagements for Dataw Island Golf Association (DIGA), Dataw Island Women’s Golf Association (DIWGA) and other club groups; forming long range plans for both of Dataw’s golf courses; ensuring environmental compliance with state and federal regulations; implementing the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program to achieve and maintain certified status; maintaining high standards of environmental awareness and ethics; and coordinating, planning and scheduling golf course work weekly with the superintendents who are responsible for implementing those plans.

Hollingsworth is a Class A member of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, the Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association, the Lowcountry Golf Course Superintendents Association, the United States Golf Association (USGA) and a certified pesticide applicator in South Carolina. Prior to joining the staff at Dataw Island in 2005, Hollingsworth worked at The Landings Club in Savannah, Ga., as the assistant superintendent for the Palmetto Course and was promoted to golf course superintendent at the Oakridge Course in February 2002. In January 2004, he was promoted to a 36-hole superintendent and moved back to The Landings Club to oversee a $2.4 million renovation of the Plantation Course.

Hollingsworth is a graduate of Auburn University in Auburn, Ala., with a bachelor’s degree in agronomy and soils. He also holds a master's degree from Auburn in turf grass management. During college, he worked on Alabama’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Silver Lakes, learning equipment operation and basic turf grass management skills.