The City of Grand Junction is reorganizing its golf operations, reducing its total number of full-time employees from eight to six, while adding a new PGA-certified head golf professional.

Grand Junction Chief Financial Officer Jay Valentine said the staffing reduction was an effort to keep the golf operations, which is an independent fund within the city, sustainable and competitive.

“Really it’s eliminating two positions because we right-sized it to be the most successful going forward without having to compensate by increasing rates over what’s going to be palatable,” Valentine said.

Grand Junction’s two municipal golf courses, Lincoln Park and Tiara Rado, are run as an enterprise fund, which sustains its operations with fees charged to users and not taxpayer money, City Manager Mike

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