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Designing and Estimating for the PGA

There is a true science and art to designing and constructing golf courses that are both enjoyable and challenging—and no one understands this better than the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) Tour Design Services Inc. Behind the rolling fairways and tantalizing greens of a golf course are perfectly graded surfaces—some designed with spot elevations every three inches.

To obtain the precision and accuracy essential for its courses, PGA Tour Design Services Inc. recently set out to find a new software solution to handle both its design and estimating needs. It reviewed and tested Carlson Software’s (www.carlsonsw.com) SurvCADD [renamed Carlson Civil 2007] with Carlson Takeoff solution at the TPC Sawgrass Golf Course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

PGA Tour Design Services Inc. had already estimated and designed certain areas on the course with its current software package, so it tested the SurvCADD [Carlson Civil 2007] and Carlson Takeoff package capabilities by redesigning and estimating earthwork quantities for the same areas. What originally took one week of work was accomplished in three hours with Carlson SurvCADD [Carlson Civil 2007] and Carlson Takeoff, which performs quick and accurate triangulation-based construction estimates. As work continues on the Sawgrass course, the PGA Tour Design Services Inc. office is now up and running with Carlson SurvCADD [Carlson Civil 2007] with Carlson Takeoff for both its design and estimating software solutions.

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