As the superintendent of Sentosa Golf Club, long-time Jacobsen user Gregg Swanson, CGCS, decided he needed new equipment to get his course ready for the Asian Tour's Barclays Singapore Open, which took place November 13-16. Swanson ordered six new Eclipse 122F walking greens mowers to compliment his current fleet, comprised in part of additional Jacobsen machines.
The units were delivered in October, three weeks prior to the start of the event, under the watchful eye of Glenn Wright, a technical training manager with Jacobsen Asia Pacific.
"I got to the golf course at 6 a.m. each morning," Wright says. "Long days indeed but I was determined to make sure that the Eclipse units worked well, and the course was in amazing shape for the entire tournament."
Cutting at 2.8 mm for two weeks, the Eclipse 122Fs got the greens ready for international media coverage and some of the best players from Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.
The height-of-cut was dropped down to 2.5 mm and the frequency-of-clip was necessarily adjusted as well during the week prior to the start of the tournament, as Swanson had Sentosa's greens reading over 11 feet on the Stimpmeter with Wright's help despite 14 inches of rain in the 10 days leading up to the start of the tournament. The Barclays Singapore Open was played under pristine course conditions and featured some of the most exciting professional golf played anywhere in the world this year
