The founders of Turflux, Tim Fitzgerald and Andy Billing, began working with satellite technology in 2013 with real life golf course spraying applications. We recognized that, while some solutions were available from a few vendors, the complete package making satellite technology usable in a golf course maintenance operation was not yet available from one source. It also seemed that the better options were only available on new spray equipment purchases.
Once we realized that this technology could also be made affordable as an installation on multiple brands of sprayers or as a conversion to existing sprayers, it quickly became apparent that this technology would elicit widespread demand, and Turflux was born the following year.
If a golf course could spend about $30,000 to upgrade a new sprayer or as a conversion to their current equipment, they could repurpoose their savings and use the techjnology to greatly improve the quality of their turf. If their budgets got tight, they could save up to 25% and still treat the ares they treated before using GPS. There really was no reason not to convert.
That’s game changing in an industry that is judged by quality but desperately looking for cost control.©