RAIN BIRD Reinvigorating a Sandbelt great Australia’s Commonwealth Golf Club turned to Rain Bird for a new irrigation system that delivers high-quality turf for its renovated golf course. With insights and ideas from Tom Doak, designer Brian Slawnik of Renaissance Golf Design spent two years reinvigorating one of the great old Sandbelt golf courses near Melbourne, Australia. New course manager Adam Lamb arrived just in time to oversee the project and found Rain Bird had been selected to provide a state-of-the-art IC System and rotors to achieve better water management and greater sustainability, including as much as 33 per cent in overall water savings. General manager Peter Paccagnan said: “The aim was to have a reliable and highly capable system. Rain Bird’s reputation for quality products, coupled with strong sales support, gave us confidence that we would have a system that would enable us to consistently deliver highquality turf in an efficient way.” Lamb added: “The relationship and trust developed over time was so important. It was Rain Bird’s willingness to help us look at new options as well as how much their system has improved in the last 15 years or so.” Lamb also cites the importance of the quality and design of Rain Bird rotors. The total of 1,200 rotors makes a huge difference to efforts to create a 8 Photo: Commonwealth Golf Club
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