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The 2025 GCSAA (Golf Course Superintendents Association of America) Conference and Trade Show has been the demonstration of how data and new technologies are the backbone for innovation. Golf makes no exception, thanks to golf course maintenance softwares.
“How is it possible to obtain turf condition data at scale and work on it without time-consuming tools or processes?” was one of the most common but also important question that we have received in San Diego.
Maintaining optimal turf conditions on a golf course is both a science and an art. Golf course maintenance softwares for data-driven agronomy have revolutionized the way superintendents and agronomists manage turf, providing deeper insights into plant health,moisture levels, and overall course conditions. Working with large volumes of data presents challenges, including collection, storage, organization, and analysis. Without the right tools, managing and making sense of diversified data points can be overwhelming. That’s why SKIM Turf Management has been created to serve superintendents via one seamless platform for automated data-collection, course monitoring, and precise turf management based on intuitive tools.
SKIM upgrades its turf management software for superintendents to the new 1.13 version
SKIM provides 800,000 measurements per turf condition diagnostic. The process is entirely remote and automated thanks to satellite-based turf analytics, removing the hassle of hardware maintenance or time-consuming manual processes. In one place, golf courses receive continuous monitoring of 17 key parameters that influence turf health. Golf course managers benefit from a growing database of knowledge of their golf course, allowing them to perform deep analytics and try innovative strategies while controlling their impact.
With the newly released software update, users can navigate data for their entire course about vegetation: Biomass (NDVI), Turfgrass Quality (PVR), Chlorophyll (NDRE), Turfgrass Density (GLI); Nutrients and Micronutrients (N, P, K, Mg, Ca, Na, Fe, B, S, Zn, Cu, Mn); and Soil Moisture.
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Additionally, SKIM Turf allows for fast registration of on-course measurements through both a web and a mobile app, providing flexibility for users to quickly add or update information as needed. While scouting, the mobile app allows to add alerts and measurements in a few seconds. All data is centralized and allows any user to review, comment, or edit it.
Building your golf course journal has never been easier, from inputting green speeds, clipping yields, and culturalnotes to generating alerts, assigning staff, or keeping track of pictures fromareas of interest. Registering and storing data is only the first step on the data journey. SKIM has been built to make that step as quick as possible, allowing superintendents to focus on value-adding activities. With SKIM, users focus on data analytics and decision-making. Automated data collection from satellite images can be confronted with your own measurements. For example, you could analyze correlations between soil temperature and its impact on turfgrass dynamics. While doing so, you can also quickly review weather summaries. You view your course through one decision-making cockpit, consolidating all essential information in one place, enhancing efficiency and strategy development.
Continuous monitoring of the golf course and easy-to-retrieve historical data also allows golf course managers to measure the impact of performed maintenance activities. Data provides valuable insights to measure the return on investment and results on turf condition. Adopting new machines like mowing robots, reducing fertilization inputs, achieving water-efficient irrigation, or implementing sustainable turfgrass management practices are all decisions that can be enhanced through data and precise management.
Conclusion
"You cannot manage what you don’t measure."
With the complexities of turf maintenance and the ever-changing environmental conditions, leveraging data with SKIM Turf Management provides the monitoring and the precision needed to make informed decisions. By embracing data-driven agronomy, superintendents can deliver top-tier playing conditions for golfers while being more precise, sustainable and saving time as well as resources. Even if you didn’t document your course turf condition in the past, you won’t start from scratch, as we provide a minimum of one year of historical data from archive satellite imagery.
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