The fairways at Hillwood Country Club will start the summer golf season healthier thanks to a big win at this year’s Golf Industry Show (GIS). Like many attendees, Wallace L. Smith, Hillwood’s general manager, entered the Toro® ProCore® Processor sweepstakes in the Toro booth, but never expected to win.
“I was in disbelief,” Smith said. “I had never won anything before, so winning the ProCore Processor for Hillwood was a pleasant surprise.”
Valued at $25,000, the Toro ProCore Processor sweeps, processes and disperses aeration cores in one quick operation. This innovative new product will return a course to playable condition in substantially less time, and with less stress to the turf, the equipment operator and the superintendent. Even golfers will take notice!
“The ProCore Processor is going to help streamline our operations and provide a more efficient, cleaner application,” Smith said.
Mark Littlejohn, CGCS, who has been Hillwood Country Club’s golf course superintendent for 23 years, agrees. “The ProCore Processor will reduce labor during the aeration process and help get the course back to normal playing conditions faster,” he said. “Core aeration takes the course out of play, but the Toro ProCore Processor should help cut the time in half.”
Established in 1953, the Hillwood Country Club is a private equity club nestled among the rolling hills and community of West Meade in Nashville, Tennessee. Hillwood Country Club has had success with Toro products in keeping the course playable for its approximately 900 members, and is excited to begin using the ProCore Processor.
“We own quite a few Toro products,” said Smith. “Toro builds strong, solid products and we will continue to use them in the future, as we have in the past, to help enhance our course.”
Bill Blackburn, general manager for Smith Turf & Irrigation, Toro’s Nashville-area distributor, delivered the good news along with the ProCore Processor to Hillwood Country Club.
“Hillwood is a prominent club right in our backyard,” Blackburn said. “We have worked with them for many years and they are a great home for this equipment. They already have a fairway aerator, so the ProCore Processor will be the perfect complement to get the fairways quickly and neatly back into play.”
For more information on Toro equipment and parts, visit www.toro.com.