Easily create a facility BMP manual for your facility. In May 2023, the Facility BMP Manual tool was updated to streamline the process. Read the FAQs then click on the Access the Facility Tool link below. Once there, you will find a facility BMP in place copied from your state BMP template. Click the link below to log in and get started or continue working on your facility’s BMP.
Golf courses face increasing regulations and threats to the tools needed to maintain quality playing surfaces, such as fertilizers, pesticides and water. A facility BMP manual helps demonstrate your good stewardship of these resources, and having BMP guides at every golf facility can decrease the pressure for large-scale regulations.
A BMP manual documents and demonstrates how you professionally and responsibly manage this land that’s under your care, which you can share with local environmental groups, golfers, or even your own greens committee to justify necessary costs.
Golf courses that use science-based BMPs are valuable greenspaces in any community or watershed.
Do your part to help protect and promote golf for future generations by creating your facility BMP, which is one very easy way to have a big impact for the whole industry.
Find your state's BMP manual.
View the National BMP Template.Logging In
See how to get started and log in to the online BMP builder.
Create a New Guide
See how to clone and create a new BMP Guide.
Steps Overview
See how to navigate the online tool and what to do in each step.
Categories and Subcategories
See how to add, delete, edit, and rearrange categories and subcategories in your guide.
Basic Edits
Get some tips on formatting text and adding links.
Upload an Image
See how to upload and size a new image into your guide.
Adding a Table
Add a table to show data or for a different way to display text and images .
Using the Cover-Builder
Use this tool to easily create a custom cover for your guide.
Publishing your Guide
All finished or ready to start version 2.0? Learn how to publish your completed guide.
Create a Cover in Publisher
Learn how to create a custom cover for your BMP Guide in Microsoft Publisher.
Create a Cover in PowerPoint
Learn how to create a custom cover for your BMP Guide in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Create a Cover in Google Slides
Learn how to create a custom cover for your BMP Guide in Google Slides.
GCSAA offers webinars for step-by-step training on guiding you through the BMP program and providing you with solutions to operating GCSAA's online BMP program.
NEW: The Environmental Plan 101: Foundation Programs and Actions
NEW: An Up-to-Date Review of Golf's Management and Use of Its Most Critical Input - Water
NEW: Planning for the Inevitable: Drought and Water Management
NEW: Best Management Practices for Turfgrass Soil Testing and Application
Getting Started on Your BMP Manual: Section 1 – Planning, Design, and Construction
BMPs to Use Now with Non-Potable or Reclaimed Water at Your Golf Course
An Inside Look at GCSAA’s Best Management Practices Resource for Facility BMP Plans
A Must Have: Written Best Management Practices Plans for Golf Facilities
Creating Habitat for Monarch Butterflies and Pollinators on Golf Courses
Keeping it Clean. BMPs for Sediment & Nutrient Management on your Golf Course
Water Management Best Management Practices by J. Bryan Unruh, Ph.D.
Protect, Connect, Maintain, Sustain: How BMPs improve your Game
Golf Course BMP Success Stories - Key Water Use BMPs (GIS 2021)
Key Water Use Best Management Practices For Your Facility BMPs (GIS 2021)
Take a look at how other courses are planning their sustainability efforts to help you get started on your own.
Do you need help establishing environmental objectives for your facility? Curious about how other courses set policies and principles? Download the sample documents below to see how other courses manage their objectives, policies and principles.
Interested in sharing what works at your facility? Contact Emily Fuger, senior manager, environmental programs, at 800-472-7878, ext. 5163.