Royal Worlington and Newmarket Golf Membership in Suffolk is the most recent membership, and first membership in East Anglia, to put money into essentially the most superior spraying system in the marketplace – Toro’s Multi Professional 5800 with GeoLink Spray know-how.
Course Supervisor Martin Turna was searching for a spraying answer that will enable him and his staff to use the right vitamins within the appropriate places to enhance turf well being, profit the surroundings and make financial savings.
Utilizing GeoLink know-how for its mapping capabilities, the Multi Professional 5800 from Reesink Turfcare will give Royal Worlington and Newmarket Golf Membership higher management and accuracy in its spraying approach and cut back the quantity of product it makes use of.
GeoLink will deal with accuracy, shutting off particular person nozzles to stop over spraying, basically eliminating the chance of misalignment points with typical sprayers. Going ahead the membership will be capable of monitor the quantity and areas of product protection, quantity, pressures, pace of sprayer throughout and after the applying.
At this nine-hole inland hyperlinks course, the grass is ok fescue and the soil is free draining and sandy. We apply a month-to-month wetting agent to all taking part in surfaces to handle soil moisture and sometimes spray selective herbicides to regulate the weeds to supply the good turf on which to play.
Martin says: “We don’t use many chemical compounds, however we’d like wetting brokers to take care of the moisture because it’s an especially dry course. Now, there will likely be no over-spraying or overlap and as we are going to solely be spraying the areas that want it, not losing chemical compounds on non-targeted areas.”
Derek Kuziw, whose position on the Inexperienced Committee is to liaise with Martin and assist assess the tools wants of the membership and channel the price range into the suitable areas, says that they had recognised there was a method for know-how to enhance the membership’s spraying processes.
“We had been utilizing a tractor-mounted sprayer which didn’t give correct management of software. The person nozzle management of the Multi Professional means there’s much less spray outdoors of the outlined areas and the operator is not compelled to activate and off growth sections when spraying. The sprayer, or ought to I say, the know-how takes over.”
The sprayer arrives in the midst of the membership’s five-year growth programme to show the fairways into quick working golf. Working with The R&A, the improved spraying strategies, together with utilizing light-weight Toro fairway mowers to assist with compaction, will assist enhance the general situation of the turf.
Martin says: “Over or below spraying isn’t good for turf well being. Extra exact software goes to cut back the stress on the turf and enhance its high quality. We checked out a number of choices, however Toro was technically the very best reply and met our necessities precisely. Lee Rowbotham from Reesink got here along with his staff to supply coaching and present us the total capabilities of the sprayer and the know-how. We didn’t look anyplace else from there.
“This buy is an funding. We’ll be spraying throughout the course from the greens, fairways, approaches, and any longer we are going to solely combine up the precise quantity of product we’d like for these areas. There will likely be no educated guesswork since we are going to know the precise areas to spray, so the financial savings might doubtlessly be important. We’ll even know the way a lot is required for the final partial tank to complete up.”
Learn the way selecting Toro know-how may benefit your course by calling UK distributor Reesink Turfcare on 01480 226800, emailing information@reesinkturfcare.co.uk or visiting www.reesinkturfcare.co.uk
