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GPS Surveying Capabilities
 McDonald & Sons now offers a wide range of surveying capabilities with the latest Trimble GPS Precision Surveying equipment. This system gives us the capability to efficiently and precisely layout new course features, record features as-built, map existing course features, and create green slope analyses.
Golf Course Layout
Whether it is new course construction or renovation of an existing course, our GPS system gives us the capability to survey in the field, according to plan. Working with plans provided by an engineer or architect, this device can layout features precisely, within several hundredths of a foot. By using this method, we can constantly keep construction progressing on a project by completing layout efficiently and accurately.
As-Built Drawings
Once construction on a project is complete, we typically document the work done with as-built drawings to provide clients with a record of what was completed. The GPS system allows us to document the work and quickly produce these drawings. All features can be easily recorded, such as tees, bunkers, greens, grassing lines, drainage pipe and inlet locations, and irrigation. Recording these features can help us to accurately produce a drawing for the golf course superintendent to reference later.
Golf Course Mapping
The GPS unit provides us with the capability to map existing features of a course. We can then provide a detailed base plan, showing all features. This can be useful for courses that do not have a base map or that need to update the base map of their property. A full study can be done, recording all features’ locations and elevations. A contour map of the property can also be created based on this study. The system can also be helpful in creating an irrigation plan. Locations of all heads, valve boxes, and coupler connections can be recorded and marked on a plan for the course’s use.
Green Slope Analysis
 The GPS system also allows us to generate slope analyses of existing green surfaces and create studies to determine what areas are suitable for hole locations. With the faster green speeds of today, many older greens have areas that are no longer cuppable. By documenting the green's surface elevations, a plan can be generated to determine where these areas are. A revised green plan can then be created, and the green can be re-graded to soften the slopes and increase the cuppable areas.
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