Kenney Machinery Keeps Crooked Stick Greens Up to Par for PGA Tournament

The 2012 the BMW Championship is taking place at Crooked Stick Golf Club just north of Indianapolis, where the top golfers in the world including Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Luke Donald, Sergio Garcia and more will compete for what promises to be one of the most exciting golf events of the year.

Crooked Stick Golf Club is ready for the best PGA players in the world, and Kenney Machinery is proud to have helped prepare the Pet Dye designed course for the honor of hosting one of the most prestigious golf tournaments of the year.

In order to keep the greens looking its best, Crooked Stick needed to double their equipment fleet. Kenney Machinery supplied an additional fleet of turf equipment to accommodate the tight timeframes the grounds crew has for course maintenance. In order to have the greens ready for the pros to tee off at 7 am, two separate grounds crews are working through the night. The extra fleet includes: two 5410 Fairway Mowers, four Flex 2100 Greens Mowers and three Workmen 2110 Utility Vehicles.

Kenney has arranged to have a maintenance technician from its Your Turf Mobile Technician Service on site all week. If there are any maintenance issues with Crooked Stick’s machinery, the issues can be dealt with on site and remedied quickly.

Kenney Machinery sponsored an orientation dinner for the 85 grounds crew volunteers last Sunday, September 2, 2012. The volunteers will help meet the needs of the tournament throughout the event. Toro has supplied apparel for the grounds crew volunteers to wear during the event.

Crooked Stick Golf and Club has been planning for the event since 2004 when club officials met with the PGA about hosting the tournament. Course renovations began last fall, including 5 new tee boxes, adding some bunkers and narrowing some fairways.

The BMW Championship is the third of four events in the PGA FedEx Cup, which is the PGA playoffs. The top 70 players in the world will compete over four days to decide the top 30 who continue to the championship two weeks after the BMW Championship.