About us

Some background information.

Fred Astrom grew up on a small farm in the country side of Sweden in a small village called Sorunda. From an early age he worked at the nearby golf course on the maintenance crew, in the pro-shop and also as a coach for both the junior and senior club team.He also tried to make a living as a tour professional.

Came to sunny California 2004 and achieved a Golf Management degree and Turf Management Degree.Became a Golf Course Superintendent and at the same time also worked and studied to become an Independent Consultant with Brookside Laboratories.
2012 he got approved as a consultant and started FG Consulting.

 

Our philosophy!

Discussing different agronomy and management challenges and experiences with site supervisors is a big part of our job.

Only looking at numbers and data does not give us all the answers, but it gives us valuable information and can tell us a story.Our goal is use this information so we can help you become the next success story.

There is usually an explanation to most of the problems we can see that can be related to either drainage, water-quality, chemistry, irrigation, compaction, shade issues or other things.

We want to provide a service for you that can help prevent and solve problems!

We work on getting as much data and information about every situation, so we can make specific recommendations just for our clients!

In using us you are taking away the guess work and will therefore be more efficient as a manager.

 

  • FG Consulting is a Soil,Water and Turf Nutrition Consulting Company mainly for Golf Courses

  • Located in California USA , but provides services all over the world

  • We have over 20 years experience in this field 

  • This online shop was created to make things easier for our customers