Supply met expectations when Toro, Reesink Hydro-Scapes, Adrian Mortram Associates and MJ Abbott Restricted united to supply Royal County Down Golf Membership with a brand new system to redefine the areas of irrigation.
The preservation of the normal hyperlinks circumstances of the course is of paramount significance to Hyperlinks Supervisor Eamonn Crawford and his group, who adhere to a strict hyperlinks upkeep programme.
The membership wanted an environment friendly state-of-the-art irrigation system for its fairways, greens, tees and pathways for use as a administration device and in instances of drought. Extra management over utility and higher administration of the useful resource was wanted, and it was necessary to make use of water conservatively, solely irrigating the surfaces required.
David Morgan, Secretary at Royal County Down, says: “Now we have a social duty to handle our water utilization, in addition to an obligation to the course and our members to current it as a conventional hyperlinks course. This requires a sure stage of irrigation management and precision to maintain it alive however not inexperienced.”
Eamonn and David had carried out their due diligence by way of model comparisons earlier than specialist irrigation designer and advisor Adrian Mortram, from Adrian Mortram Associates, tendered for the mission and Adrian was instructed to gear the irrigation system specification plans fully in direction of Toro.
“Having the most effective know-how and sources obtainable is important to make sure we ship our hyperlinks upkeep programme successfully and effectively and to the most effective of our capabilities,” says Eamonn. “There was by no means any doubt that Toro and Reesink had been the companions for us in that respect.”
Toro Lynx Central Management system and Good Hub had been specified and Robert Jackson, Divisional Supervisor, Reesink Hydro-Scapes, explains this supplied Eamonn “with all the information wanted to make choices in real-time and run the system with precision from the primary sprinkler to the final, controlling the appliance of water on totally different areas with totally different circumstances and necessities.”
Toro Infinity and Flex sprinklers had been chosen to present correct and exact watering from the supply and set up ran concurrently on each 18-hole programs over winter 2023, the wettest season and hardest winter in 25 years. The results of this on working circumstances for the set up groups had been to not be underestimated, particularly when including the terrain of a hyperlinks course to the scenario.
However that didn’t have an effect on supply, as David says: “General supply met expectations. All events got here collectively seamlessly to ship Royal County Down with an irrigation answer to the price range and timescale set.”
This method, its design and set up are a traditional instance of how you can redefine the areas of irrigation to behave as a guardian of the useful resource. By way of know-how, the membership has elevated its space of irrigation however makes use of much less water and wetting brokers and now water might be retained within the low construction of the course.
“Now, we have now full management in managing the system and water utility,” says Eamonn. “There’s no wastage and we solely use what is required the place it’s wanted. Irrigation actually is made straightforward with Toro and that is the most effective system presently and the method has been effectively price it.”
Jim Worth from MJ Abbott concludes: “That is now a totally linked course in real-time. To ship a mission of this magnitude in these circumstances on time is a large success story.”
