The maintenance of the course represents an important part of the budget of a golf club. With the cost of labour, equipment and maintenance, how can we control expenses while preserving the mowing quality? There is a solution that meets all these requirements. Discover the advantages of robot mowers for the maintenance of a golf driving range.

The key role of the driving range in a golf course

The driving range is a key space in a golf course. Golfers train there, it is also where the lessons take place. This space is a significant source of income for a club, so its maintenance must be perfect, at all times, to guarantee a best-possible experience for golfers and thus participate in the attractiveness of the club in general. In point of fact, the driving range says much about the quality of a golf club and contributes greatly to its reputation. It is therefore imperative to have an efficient and cost-effective maintenance solution.

The limits of conventional golf course maintenance

You have certainly already experienced the disadvantages of manual maintenance of a golf driving range, such as:

• Labour needs vary enormously according to the seasons, with a peak in summer and a radical drop in activity in winter, which leads to a challenge in terms of human resources and a risk of a drop in the quality of the terrain (due to a lack of staff);
• Intense physical work with its share of human errors, which can alter the quality of the grass;
• Disturbing noise from the motors of the maintenance equipment;
• …

The advantages of a robot lawn mower for driving range maintenance

The robot lawn mower easily meets the main challenges of maintaining a driving range:

1. Maximizing the practicability of the course
   The light weight of a robot mower allows it to work in all circumstances, even on wet ground. And, at the other end of the scale, the ground maintained by a robot mower is more resistant to dry weather.
   With a robot mower, the practicability of your driving range is ensured all year round and the course is more resistant to weather conditions.
2. Ensuring optimum security
   The robot mower works autonomously, without the need for direct supervision (you can, however, keep an eye on its work via an app). This way you significantly reduce the risk of accidents related to the use of heavy and noisy manual maintenance equipment.
3. Keeping the same cutting height as the fairways
   The robot mower is designed to maintain a constant cutting height, identical to that of the fairways. This consistency increases the quality of the course and ensures an optimum experience for golfers.
4. Optimizing the resources needed for maintenance
   Automating driving range maintenance allows you to reduce labour costs. A fleet of robot mowers solves the seasonal fluctuation of personnel needs: in busy periods you do not have to hire too many extras and, in the off-peak season, the robots continue to work as you wish. Costs are therefore kept under control while you also improve the quality of the cut. What is more, freed from a tedious task, your maintenance team can then focus on tasks where people matter.

Robot lawn mowers and ball collectors for fully automated maintenance of your golf course

By combining robot lawn mowers with ball collector robots, you can offer your club a complete automatization solution for the maintenance of your golf course. These ball-pickers have the same advantages as robot mowers in terms of safety, value for money and quality of work. Consequently, this fully automated solution offers you an excellent return on investment. Finally, with a fleet of automated robots to mow and to collect balls, you can realistically anticipate the budget and balance the expenses related to the seasonality of maintenance.

What you gain with an all-in robot mower and ball collector solution:

• A reliable investment
• A driving range of impeccable quality, 7 days a week7
• A wider range of driving range opening hours
• Maximum safety
• Energy costs three times lower than with thermal motor operated equipment
• Reduced and optimized personnel costs

It is no mere coincidence that more and more clubs are choosing a fleet of robot mowers as their main maintenance equipment for their golf course.

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