10.41am 18th December 2024 - <a href="https://golfbusinessnews.com/news/opinion/">Opinion</a> <br><br><em></em><em>Ken Moodie, Principal of Creative Golf Design Ltd, explains how they are applying techniques used for their golf course audits to provide golf clubs with a new service.</em><br>When it comes to planning and mapping improvements to their golf course, many golf clubs are now using on-line aerial photos for this purpose, but few have the capabilities to scale these accurately. They are also unlikely to have any accurate height or contour data to link with these images, which is particularly useful when planning drainage improvements and irrigation storage ponds. It is also important for health and safety purposes that things are mapped accurately, particularly when it comes to installing and locating underground services and electrical cables.<br><strong>LIDAR Mapping</strong><br>Using specialist software, <a href="http://www.creativegolfdesign.com/">Creative Golf Design</a> is now offering a new service of LIDAR mapping of golf courses which provides a cost-effective solution for golf clubs requiring accurate plans and contour information, at around a tenth of the cost of a traditional topographic survey. LIDAR data consists of a grid of levels at a typical spacing of 1 to 2m, accurate to just a few centimetres, which is gathered by the Environment Agency in England (and equivalent bodies in Scotland and England) for flood planning purposes. CGD can access this information and use it to generate contours which can be combined with <em>Google Earth</em> or other aerial imagery.<br>In terms of delivery, a range of options can be provided:<br>The CGD team is happy to tailor plan to suit the individual golf club and provide a truly bespoke solution. The basic package is priced at just £950 & VAT.<br>Once the topographic plan has been created, CGD can offer a range of complementary services including:<br>Another new service which they are offering, in the UK, is the provision of historic aerial maps of golf courses using photos taken by the RAF during the late 1940s. As well as providing a source of valuable historic data, it can be used to create an attractive framed picture within the clubhouse to make members and visitors aware of the golf club’s unique heritage.<br>The CGD team has utilised this source of historic information many times when planning course improvements at classic golf courses such as Royal Blackheath and Alwoodley, where historic changes for the golf course were mapped and analysed. The company also won the prestigious <em>Renovation of the Year Award</em> from the American <em>GolfInc Magazine</em> for their work at Moortown, and historic aerial imagery was used as a valuable reference to restore much of the original bunkering on this classic Alister Mackenzie design.<br>For further information, please contact <a href="mailto:ken@creativegolfdesign.com">ken@creativegolfdesign.com</a><br>A new golf podcast is available to download from today that focuses primarily on the women’s professional game in a year that sees the world’s biggest event in ladies’ golf – The Solheim Cup – return to Scotland. 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