A total of 25 golf course superintendents have signed on to be part of OnGolf's Innovator Special Program.
OnGolf is the industry's first cloud-based decision platform for improving golf course management. And 25 superintendents from throughout the United States and Canada took advantage of a chance to be among the first to use the platform to help them manage diverse environmental and management challenges, including water restrictions and high water costs, disease mitigation and rising labor costs.
"The early success of this program is validation that golf course management can operate from one dashboard for the entire course," said OnGolf chief executive officer Walt Norley. "Similar to the agricultural market, the golf industry is poised to adopt a business intelligence platform that has been highly successful in reducing the costs to manage while improving performance and yield levels."
OnGolf gives superintendents the ability to customize the best solutions for their course and manage it all in one place. Features of the platform include water management, health indicators, playing conditions indicators and labor management. As the initial users of the platform, the OnGolf Innovator Special Program subscribers are adopting the practice of making decisions based on factual insights from their course data as a guide critical to turf health, playing conditions and operating costs.
"As a new golf course superintendent, I recognized how much real-time data and historical documentation can make a significant financial and agronomic impact for a facility," said Tyler Bloom, golf course superintendent at Sparrows Point Country Club in Baltimore. "We have 27-holes of golf and 275 acres total to manage on a daily basis with a very unique setting and membership. With the help of OnGolf, I am more equipped to lead our golf course, department and facility into the future."
The initial roster of subscribers includes: Mississaugua Golf Club, Ontario; Llanerch Country Club, Havertown, Pennsylvania; Duke University Golf Club, Durham, North Carolina; Rivermont Country Club, Johns Creek, Georgia; Westmoreland Country Club, Wilmette, Illinois; The Vaquero Club, Westlake, Texas; Philadelphia Cricket Club, Flourtown, Pennsylvania; Sparrows Point Country Club, Baltimore; Grayhawk Golf Club, Scottsdale, Arizona; The Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, California; Saucon Valley Country Club, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Secession Golf Club, Beaufort, South Carolina; Shadow Creek Golf Club, North Las Vegas, Nevada; St. George's Golf & Country Club, Setauket, New York; Wade Hampton Golf Club, Cashiers, North Carolina; Woodway Country Club, Darien, Connecticut; Bob O' Link Golf Club, Highland Park, Illinois; Tiburon Golf Club, Naples, Florida; The Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles; Desert Mountain, Scottsdale; Merion Golf Club, Ardmore, Pennsylvania; Medinah Country Club, Medinah, Illinois; Kirtland Country Club, Willoughby, Ohio; Card Sound Golf Club, Key Largo, Florida; SunnyBrook Golf Club, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.
