Toro NO. 12 Better Quality Of Cut Is Just The Start, Customer-Inspired Design, DPA Earns Praise

“The adjustments on the reels themselves were really easy. With this, it’s just 1-2-3.”

— Craig Currier, Golf Course Superintendent Bethpage State Park, Long Island, New York

New Reelmaster Fairway Mowers

Better Quality Of Cut Is Just The Start

At the Toro Company, we’re grateful to have a reputation for being innovative and for

continually striving to improve our prod- ucts and create new ones.

In this spirit, Toro recently introduced four new mowers in our popular Reelmaster line, each built for exceptional performance and improved after-cut appearance on fairways.

Drawing a great deal of attention at the 2006 Golf Industry Show, the four new Reelmaster mowers—models 5210, 5410, 5510 and 5610—feature Toro’s innovative Dual “Precision” Adjustment

(DPA) cutting units, an all-wheel drive system and numerous other advanced capabilities.

Customer-Inspired Design

“The new units are based on research and feedback we received from golf course superintendents, operators and technicians,” says Tony Ferguson, marketing manager for Toro’s Reelmaster mowers. “They wanted a better fairway mower that provided improved quality of cut and after-cut appearance along with reduced maintenance, easier adjustments and improvements in operator comfort.

Based on the feedback we’ve received from many customer visits, the new Reelmasters have succeeded in all of those areas.”

Ferguson and his crew tested the new machines at about 100 courses around the country.

Superintendents at these test sites were impressed.

“Simply put, it did a great job,” says Jeff Eldridge, golf

course superintendent at the Nicklaus Golf Club, a newer, high-end, private facility in Overland Park, Kansas.

Located in a warm-season/cool-season grass transition zone, the Nicklaus Club has zoysiagrass fairways, which have always been a challenge for mowing and grooming.

“Zoysiagrass is ornery,” Eldridge explains. “But Toro’s new units are a vast improvement on zoysiagrass. Right off the truck it did a great job of mowing.”

DPA Earns Praise

Many superintendents were most impressed with the mowers’ new DPA cutting units—an exclusive Toro innovation that makes reel blade adjusting much faster and easier.

“The DPA—that’s huge because it’s so much simpler than other machines in terms of adjusting it,” says Craig Currier, golf course superintendent at Bethpage State Park in Long Island, New York, site of the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Opens. “The adjustments on the reels themselves were really easy. With this, it’s just 1-2-3.”