Golf Courses and GIS

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Golf Courses and GIS

• By Mike Stein

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Golf MIS

• The Golf Course Management Information System
• Being used by more and more courses daily
• Provide information for the players and staff of
  the course
• Helps keep course conditions up and play time
  down

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What is It?

• Large scale GPS and GIS systems for Golf Courses
• Tells a lot about a course at the click of a few
  buttons
• Management
• Course Conditions, Cart Fleet Management,
  Employee Management, Advertising
• Players
• Distance Measurement, Ordering Food, Warnings,
  Pace of Play, Two-Way Messaging, Promotions

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Management

• Course Conditions
• Sensors are installed around the course to manage
  the grass and many other conditions around the
  course
• Course Management
• You can see exactly where all carts and employees
  are on the course
• Advertising
• Companies around the course can buy out time on
  the in-cart GPS screen to advertise. You can
  also advertise you products and other services,
  such as golf lessons

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Players

• Distance Measurement
• GPS screen tells exact distance between other
  carts on the hole and your cart and the pin
• Food and Beverage Ordering
• You can place orders for food and drinks while
  still playing a hole
• Two-Way Messaging
• Massage other players in you group and the course
  management to report bad play on the course
• Hazard Warnings
• If management needs to warn players about an
  incoming storm, they can do so through the GPS
  screen

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Variations

• In-Cart GPS
• These are a screen built into the roof or dash of
  the golf cart that displays the information for
  the course
• Handheld GPS
• These devices are small handhelds, such as the
  ones used for hunting, that display the
  information for the course

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Examples

• Advertising on GPS Screen

Distance Measurement to the Pin
Managing Carts and Conditions
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Works Cited

• http//www.uplinkgolf.com/
• http//www.skygolfgps.com/
• http//www.sportsmapping.com/
• http//www.golfcoursenews.com/
• http//www.proshotgolf.com/