Testing Commercial Robotic Mowing at White Pines Golf Club
Location: Bensenville, Illinois
Project type: Commercial Autonomous Mowing Field Evaluation
White Pines Golf Club is a large golf environment in Bensenville, Illinois.
Local Lawn Care & Landscaping used the property as a real-world environment to evaluate commercial autonomous mowing technology under actual golf-course conditions.
The goal was to evaluate where robotic mowing makes operational sense, how the equipment performs around real golf-course conditions, and how robotics can supplement an existing professional grounds team.
WHAT WE EVALUATED
Navigation
How reliably the system maintains mapped mowing areas and navigates a commercial property.
Tree and Canopy Conditions
How navigation performs around trees and areas where positioning may become more difficult.
Turf Consistency
Whether frequent autonomous mowing produces consistent results in appropriate turf areas.
Obstacles and Course Activity
How the equipment operates around real-world property conditions.
Autonomous Scheduling
How mowing can potentially occur during periods that reduce interference with golfers and grounds operations.
Operational Fit
Which repetitive mowing activities can realistically be transferred to robotics and which should remain with traditional equipment and grounds employees.
Robotics Should Target Repetitive Acreage
The objective is not to replace every employee or every piece of golf-course equipment.
The strongest opportunity is identifying repetitive mowing areas that can be maintained autonomously.
This allows skilled grounds employees to spend additional time on:
Irrigation
Bunkers
Course setup
Detail work
Trimming
Trees
Drainage
Turf management
Repairs
Overall course presentation
The objective isn't simply to eliminate labor. It is to make every labor hour more productive.