Easy Installation, Everything You’re Looking For

Golf Course Manager of Caves Valley Golf Club Steve Glossinger uses a 40 inch (101.6 cm), flat panel display with his T.MapTM system.

“As far as saving me time and getting the job done better, it’s just wonderful.”

– Tom Walker

heads are and what you’re running. After this,” he adds, “you wonder how you survived with the old system. It’s that good.”

At Caves Valley, T.Map does much more than irriga- tion. “You can see your whole course,” Glossinger says, “so we use it as a tool to implement strategies. For

example, we were getting ready to put up corporate tents, but instead of going down there and doing all that measuring, with a couple clicks on the screen we knew how many tents would fit.”

The advantages of SitePro and T.Map are just starting to be discovered—water conservation, irrigation troubleshooting, locating trees for removal, determining square footage of greens and bunkers, measuring for paving estimates—and the list goes on. Better yet, it’s easy to get introduced to the program and quickly benefit from it.

“You don’t need technical savvy to run this,” says Walker. “You just point your mouse at something and click. It’s 100 times simpler than programming a VCR.”

run; enter how long you want, and it will automatically turn it on. You don’t need to know the satellite station number or any of that, because it looks it up for you.”

“It’s just a great, great benefit,” says Tom Walker, Golf Course Superintendent at The Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. “The ability to change the time of cer- tain sprinklers, to take your mouse and

Toro’s T.MapTM system provides an accurate graphical representation of the golf course to simplify irrigation management.

loop around a few heads and put them on hold for one day, two days, whatever, it’s wonderful.”

Built in 1903, The Inverness has host- ed many major tournaments, including four U.S. Opens. It typically ranks among the best-groomed courses in America, so Walker has high standards to uphold. He feels that SitePro and T.Map have helped him a lot.

“There’s so much flexibility,” he adds. “Not only is it an excellent irrigation package, it also gave me an accurate map of the golf course. I can use it for chart- ing square footages, charting out holes, locating drain lines, even trees,” he says. “As far as saving me time and getting the job done better, it’s just wonderful.”

Easy Installation

When T.Map is installed, whether with new or existing SitePro software, it requires a designer or consultant to pro- vide an AutoCAD image of the golf course—from a survey, GPS program, aerial photos or even drawn freehand. GPS isn’t required for T.Map, but it does

improve accuracy.

The AutoCAD data is then converted into T.Map-shaped files and layered color-coded images.

“What the data conversion does is to look at all this

course info, create what it needs to create, and saves it in a zip file,” explains Toro’s Jurkis. “That one file is all you need.

Tell SitePro to do a File Open, and there it will be.”

When setting up the initial AutoCAD image, which most new courses already have, you can determine how detailed you want it to be.

Everything You’re Looking For

“It’s unlimited what you can do,” says Steve Glossinger, Golf Course Manager at Caves Valley Golf Club in Baltimore, Maryland. “We put in all the surfaces, contour lines, fairways, bunkers, trees, even paths and buildings. We did just about everything on the property.”

Caves Valley, site of this year’s Senior Open, has relied on computerized irriga- tion control for several years, but T.Map is a big improvement, Glossinger feels.

“I didn’t know it was going to be this good, quite frankly,” he says. “It’s friendlier; I picked up on it quicker. It has every- thing super- intendents are looking for. With this system, you really see your golf course and where your