How does it work?
IrrigateApp essentially bolts on to your existing irrigation infrastructure and turns it into a wirelessly controlled system.
We replace your Ground Box lids with our custom, solar-powered control boxes which then allow you to switch solenoid or valve sprinklers on and off over the internet using our app. Each box takes around 15 minutes to install and we can often complete a full 18-hole install in under a day – no trenching, no hole closures.
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Features
What can IrrigateApp do?
Benefits and Savings
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Water Usage
Water has always been one of a golf course's most valuable resources. In recent years, however, it has become an increasingly important operational and financial consideration.
Following one of the driest years on record in parts of the UK, many courses are reviewing how water is used across their estate. Rising costs, changing weather patterns, and growing expectations around sustainability are placing greater pressure on irrigation systems than ever before.
IrrigateApp helps courses respond to these challenges by providing more precise control over irrigation. By making it easier to schedule, monitor, and adjust watering programmes, courses using the system have achieved up to a 30% reduction in water usage.
The benefits extend beyond environmental performance. Reduced water consumption can lead to significant savings in water abstraction, treatment, pumping, and energy costs, helping clubs protect both playing conditions and budgets.
By making better use of every litre applied, IrrigateApp supports a more resilient approach to course management, whatever the weather conditions bring.
Man Hours
For many courses, irrigation management requires a significant investment of time. Manual operation, early-morning checks, adjustments to schedules, and responding to changing conditions can quickly consume valuable hours that could be spent elsewhere on the course.
IrrigateApp simplifies irrigation management by putting control directly into the hands of greenkeeping teams. With remote access from a phone, tablet, or PC, irrigation can be monitored, adjusted, and scheduled without the need to travel between control locations or manually operate systems.
The result is not just greater efficiency. It is more time for the work that players notice.
By reducing the number of hours spent managing irrigation, greenkeeping teams can focus on course presentation, bunker maintenance, turf improvements, landscaping, drainage, and the many other tasks that enhance the overall golfing experience.
For courses operating with lean teams and increasing demands on resources, making better use of existing staff time can be just as valuable as reducing water or energy costs.
Finances
Every irrigation upgrade requires investment. The question is how much value that investment delivers in return.
Traditional irrigation replacement projects often involve extensive trenching, rewiring, pipework upgrades, labour costs, and prolonged disruption. For many clubs, the overall project cost can make modernisation difficult to justify, even when the existing system is becoming increasingly expensive to manage.
IrrigateApp takes a different approach.
By retrofitting to existing irrigation infrastructure, IrrigateApp can deliver modern control and automation at up to 70% lower cost than comparable replacement projects, while avoiding much of the disruption, labour, and construction work associated with traditional upgrades.
The financial benefits continue long after installation. Reduced water consumption, lower energy use, fewer man-hours spent managing irrigation, and improved operational efficiency all contribute to ongoing savings year after year.
There is also a wider commercial benefit. Better irrigation management helps create more consistent playing conditions, healthier turf, and a better overall golfing experience. In an increasingly competitive market, improvements to course quality can support member retention, attract new members, encourage repeat visitor play, and strengthen a club's reputation.
For many courses, the result is a rare combination of lower costs and a better experience for golfers.