Carnoustie Golf Links announces partnership with Rain Bird and John Deere

Following a topographical system analysis and other investigations conducted by specialist consultants, Carnoustie Golf Links, supported by Rain Bird UK’s golf distributor Rigby Taylor, will embark on a full renovation of each of its courses to upgrade them with advanced irrigation technologies. The courses will benefit from Rain Bird’s Cirrus Central Control System combined with Integrated Control (IC), which enables sophisticated real-time, two-way communications between the control system and other components. The technology will provide Links superintendent Craig Boath and his team with the ultimate in field control. Boath and his team are responsible for maintaining three courses, including the famed Championship Course. 

Assisted by Rain Bird Golf’s UK team, they will fine-tune the new system to continually monitor conditions across the Links and apply the precise amount of irrigation each area needs. The Central Control generates a significant amount of data to help inform course management decisions, enabling staff to optimise turfgrass performance and drive efficiencies.

John Deere is committed to producing innovative equipment and precision technology for the world’s best golf courses, supported by flexible John Deere Financial solutions. John offers a wide range of hybrid greens and fairway mowers in the industry, including the brand new 2750E ride-on triplex, of which there are 12 in the new Carnoustie Golf Links fleet, supplied by local dealer Double A. 

John Deere is also a world leader in GPS-guided technology and vehicle telematics, developed over the past 20 years for its agricultural business. This advanced technology is now becoming available for golf and turf customers, through the new GPS PrecisionSprayer and the development of autonomous mowing equipment. Carnoustie has three of the first GPS PrecisionSprayer units to be sold in Europe, which apply inputs more accurately and record spraying operations for environmental purposes.