Overview

Smarter Golf Course Management with Complete Course Visibility

Smarter Golf Course Management with Complete Course Visibility

Smarter Golf Course Management with Complete Course Visibility

GroundSense is a comprehensive golf course management platform designed to help golf course superintendents, course managers, and greenkeeping teams streamline operations through intelligent course mapping, maintenance planning, and real-time operational insights


Managing a modern golf course requires visibility across turf health, infrastructure, maintenance activities, assets, and environmental compliance. GroundSense centralises critical course information into a single digital platform, enabling teams to make faster decisions, improve efficiency, and deliver consistently exceptional playing conditions.

GroundSense is a comprehensive golf course management platform designed to help golf course superintendents, course managers, and greenkeeping teams streamline operations through intelligent course mapping, maintenance planning, and real-time operational insights


Managing a modern golf course requires visibility across turf health, infrastructure, maintenance activities, assets, and environmental compliance. GroundSense centralises critical course information into a single digital platform, enabling teams to make faster decisions, improve efficiency, and deliver consistently exceptional playing conditions.

Timeline

Timeline

12 Months

12 Months

Scope

Scope

Product Strategy,UX Research, UI Design ,Golf Course GIS Mapping,Dashboard Design
Data Visualisation, Design System Development

Product Strategy,UX Research, UI Design ,Golf Course GIS Mapping,Dashboard Design
Data Visualisation, Design System Development

Client

Client

Groundsense

Groundsense

Our Strategy

Creating a Digital Twin for Golf Course Operations


Golf course management often relies on disconnected spreadsheets, paper-based records, and fragmented operational processes. This creates challenges when tracking maintenance activities, managing infrastructure, monitoring turf conditions, and reporting on course performance.

Our strategy focused on developing a centralised golf course management system that provides complete visibility across every aspect of course operations. Through stakeholder research and workflow analysis, we identified the need for a platform that could unify mapping, maintenance planning, asset management, and reporting within a single intuitive experience.

Approach

Our approach combined extensive user research, operational analysis, and product strategy to understand the daily challenges faced by golf course managers, superintendents, and maintenance teams.

We mapped existing maintenance workflows, documented operational requirements, and identified opportunities to improve efficiency through digital transformation. These insights informed the design of a scalable platform that simplifies complex course management processes while delivering meaningful operational intelligence.

Our approach combined extensive user research, operational analysis, and product strategy to understand the daily challenges faced by golf course managers, superintendents, and maintenance teams.

We mapped existing maintenance workflows, documented operational requirements, and identified opportunities to improve efficiency through digital transformation. These insights informed the design of a scalable platform that simplifies complex course management processes while delivering meaningful operational intelligence.

Design Activities

Key Interventions

Intervention one

Golf course teams often struggle to access accurate information when course data is spread across multiple systems, spreadsheets, and paper records.One of GroundSense's most significant interventions was the creation of a GIS-powered digital course environment that centralises every critical asset, maintenance zone, and infrastructure component within a single interactive platform This intervention not only improves productivity and accountability but also provides valuable operational insights that support better resource management, improved course conditions, and more sustainable golf course operations.

Intervention two

Managing golf course maintenance requires constant coordination between teams, resources, equipment, and schedules. GroundSense introduced a unified operational framework that simplifies maintenance planning, task management, and performance reporting through a centralised digital platform.This intervention not only improves productivity and accountability but also provides valuable operational insights that support better resource management, improved course conditions, and more sustainable golf course operations.

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We collaborate with organizations across research, technology, healthcare, finance, and operational industries to create clearer systems, scalable experiences, and stronger communication ecosystems.


Whether you're building something new, restructuring existing systems, or navigating organizational growth, we'd love to hear from you.

© Playground Strategy & Design 2026. All rights reserved