Anna Gardner

        On average, a golf course uses over 1 million gallons of water daily, about 2 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water. You can also look at this as 7 million gallons a week, 30 million gallons a month, and 365 million gallons a year. When there are around 15,500 Golf courses in the US, all using that much water every year, that means 5.518 trillion gallons of water are being used to maintain the golf courses in the US. Eco Golf is an irrigation system created to help only use the minimum amount of water to accurately maintain a golf course's health and aesthetics to save water in the country. Using water on golf courses makes golf more sustainable for the environment. Water waste is one of the biggest problems our country and world face today, so when seeing these numbers, it became clear the need to design something that would help decrease that water waste from golf courses by as much as possible. 

       As my partner and I are two people who love golf and play competitively, we knew we wanted to create something related to it, so we first looked at the problems on golf courses, and the first thing we came across was water waste. EcoGolf will help make golf a more sustainable activity. The system created works by using multiple different moisture sensors that will sense when the moisture has dropped to a level lower than what it is needed to be at and will alert the watering system that there needs to be water added in that specific place. This loop continues, and there is only the correct amount of water in the grass. Creating a healthy golf course but not overusing water when it doesn’t need to be.