Setting up your course
How to set your weather location, club details, courses and routings, course areas and green lists so the rest of TurfWise has the right foundations
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This article shows you where to set up the basic facts about your course, the details that weather, spraying, planning and reports all rely on.
Most of it is covered by the setup wizard the first time an admin logs in: Club Details, Locale, Course Areas and Weather are the course steps. Come back here when you want to check or change anything afterwards.
After setup, managers also get a Your first week setup plan — look for the Setup plan button at the bottom of the list that opens from any place in the top bar. One of its steps, Measure your course areas, ticks itself off once every course area has a size. See Your first login for how the plan works.
What needs setting up, and where?
There are five things to get right. Here's where each one lives:
- Weather location -- Settings › Weather & integrations
- Club name, address and logo -- Settings › Club details & branding
- Courses, loops and routings -- Settings › Courses & routings
- Course areas (greens, tees, fairways and so on) -- Course › Disease & areas, which opens the Course Areas page
- Green lists for green speed and clipping records -- Settings › Green lists
Who can change these?
These pages are for managers and admins. If you can't see or save them, ask your club's admin to check your role.
How do I set my weather location?
Your weather location is the single most important setting in TurfWise. It drives the daily briefing on Today, spray windows, growth potential and weather alerts. If it's wrong, all of those will be wrong too.
Open Weather settings
Click your initial in the top bar, choose Settings, then click Weather & integrations. The page is headed Weather Configuration.
Find Location Settings
Scroll to the Location Settings panel. Give the location a name and check the Timezone.
Set the position
Under Location Input Method, choose Coordinates (Lat/Long) to type a latitude and longitude, or Postcode Lookup to find it from a postcode.
Save
Click Save Settings at the bottom of the page.
Put the pin where the weather matters
On a big site, set the location to the middle of the course or your maintenance facility rather than the clubhouse car park. A postcode gets you close, but coordinates are more precise.
The same page also holds your Application Safety Thresholds for spraying and, if you have one, your weather station connection. See Weather.
Premium
Connecting your own weather station is part of Premium. Core clubs use TurfWise's forecast for their location.
How do I update my club details and logo?
Click your initial in the top bar, choose Settings, then click Club details & branding. You'll find:
- Organization Details -- the name, Club Logo (Upload Logo or Change Logo, on Premium), contact email, phone number, address, postcode and course type
- Regional Settings -- timezone, date format, currency and units
- Operational Benchmarking -- your expectation level, estimated annual rounds and number of bunkers
Click Save Changes when you're done.
These settings apply to everyone
Club details and regional settings are shared by the whole club, not just you. Agree units and date format with your team before anyone starts logging data.
If you're an admin, this page also has a Reopen Setup button. It runs the setup wizard again with your earlier answers filled in, which is handy if you skipped steps the first time.
How do I set up courses, loops and routings?
This is for clubs that need to say which holes are in play. A single 18-hole course may not need it at all. For 27 or 36 holes, it lets TurfWise know which nines are being played together.
Click your initial in the top bar, choose Settings, then click Courses & routings. Work down the page in this order:
Create the course
In Create course, enter a Name (for example "East Course") and a Type, then click Add course. Multi-course clubs add each course separately.
Add the 9-hole loops
In Loops, enter a Loop name (for example "A", "B" or "Front 9") and a Sort order, then click Add loop. Click Generate 1–9 holes on each loop to create its holes.
Create routings
A routing is a set of loops played together. In Routings, enter a Routing name (for example "A+B"), Select loops, tick Set as default routing for the one you play most, and click Add routing.
Set what's in play
In In Play, pick a Date and a Routing, then click Set in play. It's set per date, so if your club rotates, set it for each day.
27 holes?
Create one course with three loops (A, B and C), then a routing for each pairing you play: A+B, B+C and A+C. Make the most common one the default.
How do I set up course areas?
Course areas are the greens, tees, fairways, bunkers and other surfaces that the rest of TurfWise reports on. Spray records, jobs, readings and reports all point at them.
Click Course in the top bar and choose Disease & areas. This opens Course Areas. Click Add area and fill in:
- Name (for example "1st Green") and Type
- Colour, used on maps
- Area size (ha) -- your stated figure
- Optional details such as Grass type, Irrigation zone, Maintenance level and Notes
Click Add area to save. To change one later, open it and click Save changes.
Your stated size is the one TurfWise uses
If you've mapped your course, TurfWise may show a measured size beside your figure. It never overwrites the number you typed. That's deliberate: a club that paid for a survey shouldn't lose that figure to a rough satellite trace.
Areas are set up on the desktop only
The areas list belongs to the desktop. The TurfWise mobile app can't add, rename or delete areas. That keeps one list everyone agrees on, so you don't end up with "7th green" twice.
For mapping, measured sizes and archiving, see Course areas.
What are green lists for?
Click your initial in the top bar, choose Settings, then click Green lists. This is the list of greens used for green speed and clipping records. Click Add green, type a Green name and click Save green. Sizes here are entered in hectares.
Common problems and fixes
Weather on the Today page doesn't match what I'm seeing outside
Check the location in Settings › Weather & integrations. A postcode for the club's office address can be miles from the course on a big estate.
The setup wizard wouldn't let me finish
The Weather step is required. Set your location there and Complete Setup will unlock.
I can't see Courses & routings or Course Areas
What you can see and change here depends on your role. Ask your club's admin to check it.
Areas on the phone don't match the desktop
Make changes on the desktop, in Course Areas. Don't try to fix it from the phone, because the app doesn't edit areas. If they still don't match, contact support.