iGolf is excited to partner with Optidata (SkimTurf™ Management)

Category: Course Maintenance

SAN DIEGO, CA – February 8, 2024 – iGolf is excited to partner with Optidata, the technology company behind SkimTurf™ Management, an advanced turf management platform that combines satellite imagery, artificial intelligence, and course-wide agronomic data to help golf course maintenance teams make more informed decisions. Through the partnership, SkimTurf integrates iGolf’s industry-leading golf course mapping and geospatial data into its platform, providing an accurate spatial foundation for monitoring turf conditions and helping superintendents identify where attention and resources are needed across the golf course.

SkimTurf is designed to give maintenance teams a comprehensive understanding of turf conditions without requiring extensive hardware or manual data collection. The platform uses satellite imagery and AI to provide non-invasive monitoring across the golf course, including measurements and analysis related to soil moisture, vegetation indices, and nutrient levels in plant tissue. By regularly analyzing conditions across the property, SkimTurf can help identify trends and anomalies associated with nutrient deficiencies, disease risk, excessively wet areas, and drought stress, allowing maintenance teams to focus scouting and resources where they are needed most.

The platform extends that information into practical tools for everyday course management. Superintendents and maintenance teams can review intuitive data visualizations to quickly identify areas requiring investigation, while reports, alerts, and an integrated AI Assistant provide additional support for interpreting course conditions and making agronomic decisions. SkimTurf is accessible through both web and mobile applications, giving teams access to the same information whether they are in the maintenance facility, scouting the property, or working directly on the golf course.

Through its partnership with iGolf, SkimTurf gains access to the geospatial intelligence behind more than 40,000 mapped golf courses across 177 countries. Accurate mapping provides an important geographic framework for a platform built around analyzing conditions across large and complex golf properties. By connecting satellite-derived turf information with detailed course geometry, the platform can present agronomic information in the context of the actual golf course, helping maintenance professionals more precisely understand where conditions exist and prioritize their response.

The partnership represents a particularly strong alignment between iGolf’s mapping expertise and the growing role of data-driven decision-making in golf course maintenance. Traditionally, understanding turf conditions across an entire property has required extensive physical scouting, localized sensors, sampling, and manual observations. Remote sensing and AI create an opportunity to supplement that expertise with frequent, course-wide information, giving superintendents another tool for identifying potential issues earlier and deploying labor, water, nutrients, and other resources more efficiently. SkimTurf specifically emphasizes that its satellite-based approach requires no additional on-course hardware or maintenance.

“Golf course mapping has applications that extend far beyond providing distances to golfers, and our partnership with Optidata is a great example of how geospatial intelligence can support the people responsible for maintaining the course itself. SkimTurf is combining satellite imagery, AI, and agronomic information in a way that gives maintenance teams a broader understanding of what is happening across their property. We’re excited to provide the mapping foundation that helps connect those insights to the golf course and supports smarter, more precise turf management,” said Ryan Kimberling, Vice President of Sales & Strategy at iGolf.

About iGolf

iGolf is a global golf technology company specializing in golf course mapping, GPS content, geospatial intelligence, and virtual golf solutions. With more than 20 years of mapping expertise, iGolf licenses data for over 40,000 golf courses across 177 countries, powering products from more than 100 partners worldwide. Each year, more than 30 million rounds of golf are played using iGolf-powered GPS and course intelligence. The company’s technology portfolio also supports launch monitors, virtual golf, golf carts, laser rangefinders, mobile applications, and other connected golf experiences.

About Optidata (SkimTurf™ Management)

Optidata is the developer of SkimTurf™ Management, a precision turf management platform that combines satellite imagery, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and data visualization to help golf course maintenance teams monitor and manage turf conditions. SkimTurf provides course-wide information including soil moisture, vegetation indices, and plant tissue nutrient levels, along with tools for identifying trends and potential issues such as disease risk, nutrient deficiencies, wet areas, and drought stress. The platform also provides reports, alerts, and AI-assisted analysis through web and mobile applications, giving maintenance professionals access to course information wherever they work. The SkimTurf Management application is published by OPTIDATA Sp. z o.o. and is available for iPhone and iPad.