Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Membership is nearing the completion of a major funding to completely overhaul and modernise its on-course irrigation system, and additional improve course conditioning.
This intensive challenge on the UAE venue, which is about to be accomplished by October, will revolutionise the best way the golf course is managed and maintained, along with taking a vital step within the membership’s journey in direction of better sustainability.
The superior improve consists of the set up of latest major traces, lateral traces, a cutting-edge sprinkler system, and a state-of-the-art laptop system. In complete, greater than 3,000 sprinklers and 40km of pipe shall be laid to make sure full irrigation protection throughout all 18 holes, encompassing all tees, fairways, approaches, and greens.
“The irrigation overhaul supplies Dubai Creek with probably the most superior automated irrigation system obtainable,” mentioned David Taggart, Membership Supervisor at Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Membership. “The golf course is our most necessary asset and water is our most necessary useful resource. By putting in this new system, Dubai Golf is exhibiting its dedication to offering the absolute best enjoying circumstances for members and company, for a few years to come back. What’s extra, we will goal our assets in a lot better element, saving vital time and extra importantly 30,000,000 litres of water a 12 months.”
One of many standout options of this new system, put in in partnership with Rain Chook, is the power to manage and monitor irrigation in real-time via tablets and good telephones. This degree of intelligence and perception permits golf course upkeep managers to effectively adapt to the altering circumstances and apply the minimal quantity of water required to supply glorious enjoying surfaces.
“Dubai Creek was named the primary golf resort within the UAE final 12 months, and we’re eager to proceed driving the membership ahead and enhancing the enjoying expertise even additional. With this vital funding, the upkeep workforce at Dubai Creek will have the ability to work extra precisely and effectively, and in the end ship a golf course that’s higher conditioned than ever earlier than,” mentioned Chris Might, CEO of Dubai Golf. “This isn’t simply an incremental enchancment; it’s a complete overhaul designed to convey Dubai Creek to the forefront of sustainable agronomy practices but additionally to the eye of golfers worldwide as a must-visit {golfing} vacation spot.”
Taggart added: “Dubai Creek has constructed a major legacy each regionally and internationally because it opened in 1993. This sizeable funding permits the membership to proceed to construct on that legacy and be ready for the challenges of tomorrow. We’re very pleased with the wonderful work our Superintendent, Harry Wells and his workforce produce and offering them with the state-of-the-art know-how permits them to proceed to set the usual for excellence in an environmentally accountable method.”
