In the Rough

The principle for adding security to a Golf Course is very similar to most security applications.

Once you have purchased the system you need to covertly place the detector somewhere around the area you are protecting. The location needs to be strategically placed so the potential intruder is unaware of its location.

The detector will respond to an intruder by sending a coded signal that contains some information about which one of the detectors has been activated.

It is very much dependant on how you’re setup for your golf club. If there is a Security guard / officer on the course then they need to be placed where the detector radio sends back the signal or you should have the main radio receiver in the clubhouse or pro-shop if separate.

Once the signal has been sent back to the radio receiver it decodes the message and indicates both visually and audibly, which detector sent the message.

You can use as many detectors as you need to cover the important parts of the golf course. Each detector is capable of running with the main radio receiver.

Does anyone know what I should be looking for in intruder alarm systems for my golf course?

Their is nothing more annoying than hitting a sweet shot only for it to land near a hazard or become an unplayable shot.

A great example of this was when i was playing recently at my local course. I was playing an approach shot to the 16th green and with it being a summer’s day and the fairway’s short i tried to play a shot just short of the green in the hope it would run on to the green at the front where the flag was situated.

Unfortunately what it failed to tell me on the score card was their was residential fire sprinklers on the short cut before the green and unfortunately my ball found one of them took a hideous bounce over the back of the green.

Now if my ball would of landed in the sprinkler i would of been okay and got a free drop but with it hitting the size of a fifty pence piece i know had a 25yard chip back to the pin with what can only be described as a bad lie.

This bounce cost me three shots as i chipped back to the green, missed the 6ft putt and then holed out. The scorecard doesn’t have a box that says hit sprinkler and took a bogey it says Par 4 hole and it took 5 shots to make it. Never a good sign!