Club on the home straight to a complete Toro Total Solution across all three of golf courses
For over 15 years, Toro machinery has helped produce three courses of championship quality, improve ranking, and attract members. For the club’s latest fleet delivery, as part of a rolling lease deal signed five years ago, Director of Courses and Estates, Paul Sheather and Courses Manager Jake Boardman curated a comprehensive machinery update.
The club benefits from a fleet refresh every 18 months, bringing an injection of new technology.
The latest 18-month refresh brings in new greens, tees, roughs and surrounds mowers, utility vehicles, transporters for tees mowers, and blowers to the club in the heart of Oxfordshire. More electric options have been selected specifically for the utility vehicles fleet as the club increases its amount of battery-powered machinery.
It’s a well-rounded update ensuring performance excellence for the club.
Jake says: “The site is huge: 54 holes, three courses and 450 acres and our fleet works hard. An injection of new technology and reliability gives an all-round lift.”
2025 also sees the club’s second phase of irrigation complete. In recent years, the club has initiated a major three-phase irrigation upgrade to ensure the long-term quality and playability of its courses.
Toro irrigation is fully installed on two of Frilford Heath’s courses and the foundation is set for the Green course too.
The first phase, completed in 2022 by Ocmis, delivered a modern Toro Lynx irrigation system to the Blue Course and in 2024, the second phase followed with the installation of the same system on the Red Course, setting the foundation for the final phase on the Green Course. Once complete, all three courses will be equipped with a fully integrated and reliable irrigation solution.
Jake says: “It was a big job involving all pipework replacement, but there was minimal disturbance to the turf and the finish was excellent. Now we have a system which is easy to manage and maintain performance consistency and set up ready for the final integration on the Green Course.”