Case Study: Clearwater Resort

Architect: Darby Partners
Project Manager: Darby Partners

Clearwater Resort is located just out of Christchurch and is the home of the NZ PGA Championship. This top quality resort course was designed by John Darby in consultation with New Zealand golfing legend Sir Bob Charles.

• Irrigation system designed by Parkland’s design engineers
• Parkland installation completed in 2001.
• Controlled by a SitePro computer with handheld radio field control
• CDS decoder system
• Over 3,000 Toro 700 series sprinklers used
  • 730s sprinkler heads (including landscape)
  • 760s sprinkler heads
• Individually controlled back-to-back sprinklers are used on the greens