Atlantic Prevails at Rockland Country Club

I am proud to announce that Atlantic Irrigation has been selected to supply the irrigation for Rockland Country Club's new irrigation system.  Rockland CC is located in Sparkill, NY and is a beautiful member owned test of golf.  Matt Ceplo, the superintendent at Rockland chose to go with a Rain Bird IC control system and the design by Irrigation Consulting, Inc. features a "five row" system with nearly 2000 Eagle 751 full and part circle sprinklers.  The installation will be done by Leibold Irrigation of East Dubuque, Iowa.  All piping will be DR-13.5 HDPE.  Atlantic prevailed against formidable competition on this one due to our ability to service the customer rapidly from our nearby North White Plains headquarters.  Rockland is replacing a 20 year old competitive brand system.  This is a great win!

Atlantic Wins Bid for Leewood Golf Club

Leewood Golf Club in Eastchester, NY will be working with Atlantic on thier new irrigation system this Fall.  The multi row design by Irrigation Consulting, Inc. includes Eagle sprinklers, Par+ES Controls and a Cirrus Central.  The project will be installed by National Lawn Sprinkler of North White Plains.  The superintendent, Trapper Van Dunk, chose Atlantic as his supplier, primarily for our great and responsive service.  Trapper is looking forward to the reliability of Rain Bird products going forward.

Plainfield CC hosts The Barclays

This year's Barclays PGA event, which is the first round of the Fed-Ex Playoff's is being held this week at Plainfield Country Club in Edison, NJ.  125 of the world's best professional golfers are enjoying Plainfield this week.  Many have complimented the course which is an absolutely beautiful Donald Ross Design that ranks amongst America's Top 100 courses, and is high on anyone's "classic golf course" list.  Superintedent, Travis Pauley, is a happy Atlantic Customer using all Rain Bird products to irrigate his course.  Fred Rapp and Jeff Allen of Atlantic participated this week as volunteers at the event to show our support to Travis and Plainfield.  The golf course is in absolutely amazing condition.  Great job Travis!

Meadow Brook Club chooses to stay with Rain Bird for their Irrigation Upgrade

Meadow Brook Club in Jericho, NY (Long Island) is widely known as a prestigious golfing destination.  The Dick Wilson designed course has held many local, regional and professional tournaments over its storied 56 year history.  Atlantic is proud to continue our relationship and remain the supplier of choice to John Carlone, CGCS and Meadow Brook Club.  John is upgrading all of his Par controllers to the latest PAR+ES model and is adding 100 rough sprinklers.  John is using Rain Bird's latest 751 Full and Part Circle Rotor to supplement the rough in key areas.  If you are looking for a respected industry reference on the benefits of Rain Bird products and thier applications on a championship golf facility, please feel free to contact John.

Wee Burn Goes Rain Bird!

The prestigious Wee Burn Country Club in Darien, CT has chosen to use Rain Bird products and work with Atlantic on their proposed irrigation system.  This project will commence in late Summer of 2012 and will be installed by Leibold Irrigation.  The proposed system was designed by James Barrett Associates and features multiple rows of sprinklers resulting in what will be wall to wall coverage.  The system will be controlled by a Cirrus Central and 48 Par+Es Controllers, and will utilize both 900/950 and 700/751 sprinkers, as well as over 100 bunker zones of Rain Bird Spray Heads and Hunter MP Rotator Nozzles.  Also of note, Wee Burn will be installing Rain Bird's new Integrator Sensor System on three greens.  This is a huge project and  a monumental win for both Atlantic and Rain Bird.  Doug Drugo, the superintendent, hails from the famous Oakmont Country Club, near Pittsburgh, PA.  The new system will help Doug provide the members of Wee Burn with same notorious conditioning that Oakmont is famous for.  We are thrilled to be involved in this one!

Somerset Hills Country Club selects Atlantic and Rain Bird!

Somerset Hills Country Club in Bernardsville, NJ has selected Atlantic Irrigation to be their irrigation distributor of choice and will be installing a new Rain Bird IC System.  Somerset Hills is widely recognized as one of AW Tillinghast's best preserved designs.  This special facility appears annually on several publication's Top 100 lists.

The proposed 5 row design was prepared by Aqua Agronomic Solutions and will feature nearly 1800 Valve in head, Full/Part Circle 751 sprinklers.  All pipe and fittings will be fused HDPE.  Landscapes Unlimited will be the installing contractor.  We cant wait to get this one started!

Sagamore Resort Chooses Rain Bird

Atlantic Irrigation Specialties in partnership with Rain Bird Services Corporation of Upstate New York will be supplying the new irrigation system at the Sagamore Resort Golf Course in Bolton Landing, NY.  With the addition of a state-of-the-art Rain Bird Irrigation System to this Donald Ross designed golf course, The Sagamore Resort will not only have a golf course that is designed by the “Patron Saint of Golf Architecture, it will be irrigated with products from a company that is known for its commitment to the Intelligent Use of Water™ and manufacturing of products with the highest value and quality.

Ross designed his courses with wide fairways, crowned greens and subtle contours formed from the existing lay of the land. He didn't believe in gimmicks, but in a classic simplicity that honored the natural environment.  It is for these reasons that The Sagamore Resort hired Irrigation Consultant Jim White to design an irrigation system that would be able to manage the features created by Ross.

The irrigation system is a  multiple row irrigation system allowing for precise application of water via individual head control, and excellent water distribution with over 800 Rain Bird 700/751 Series Valve-In-Head rotors and 48 Bunker zones controlled by Rain Bird electric valves. The Hydraulic network was designed to utilize HPDE pipe through out. The Club will also benefit from flexible In-Field Control provided by 14 Par + ES Controllers, Stratus II Central Control, Freedom Radio, and Rain Bird RainWatch Technology.  RainWatch is the industries only system designed to automatically react to rainfall and adjust sprinkler application rates to take full advantage of natural rain, thereby eliminating over‑watering.

Atlantic Chosen to Supply Pennsauken Country Club

Atlantic Irrigation Specialties will be supplying Pennsauken Country Club with it's new irrigation system.  Pennsauken Country Club, located in Pennsauken, NJ, is a well known local club that is Township owned and operated.  The facility is well known for its excellent course conditions and the new Rain Bird PAR+ES Expanded Double Row system will ensure that the course maintains that reputation, even in dry seasons.  The proposed irrigation system was designed by Irrigation Consulting Inc. of Pepperell, Massachusetts. The new system is part of a larger effort that was engineered and coordinated between the Township of Pennsauken and a local utility authority which will be providing the golf course with a continual source of reclaimed treated water for irrigation. The project will be installed by the George E. Ley Company of Glenmore, PA, who was the successful bidder.   Pennsauken chose to specify Rain Bird products and chose Atlantic because of our superior local support and service.   We look forward to building a long standing relationship with this new customer. 

Indian Hills CC Upgrades Control System

Inidan Hills Country Club in Northport, NY has been a long time Atlantic/Rain Bird customer.  Because they have enjoyed using reliable Rain Bird products and appreciate the excellent support and service Atlantic has provided over the years the club has committed to upgrade thier exisitng control system to our latest platform.  The club recently upgraded thier 15 field controllers from older PAR controllers to PAR+ES models, and they have also upgraded their Rain Bird central software from Nimbus to Nimbus II.  This modernization will allow them to take full advantage of all of Rain Bird's latest features, and will serve them well into the future.

Indian Hills is a special place located right on the Long Island Sound on Long Island's North Shore.  It has some of the most picturesque golf holes in all of Long Island, and that is saying alot with all of the stiff competition in the region.  The course was designed by Alfred Tull in 1961 and is working with Stephen Kay, Golf Course Architect on some improvements that will take place in the future.

Concord Country Club chooses Atlantic and Rain Bird for their new Control System

Concord Country Club in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania recently chose Atlantic Irrigation to supply them a new Rain Bird PAR+ES Link Control System which will be retrofitted to operate their existing irrigation system.  Concord CC is a beautiful course located in picturesque Delaware County and was originally designed by the renowned golf course architect William Flynn.  The new Wireless Controllers will be retrofitted in place of an exisitng 10 year old competitor's product that was no longer serving them well.  They will operate the new system from a Stratus LT central controller which will give them an easy to operate and reliable system, that is fully flow managed and efficient.  The entire control system retrofit is being financed through Rain Bird Financial Solutions with Zero Interest monthly payments that fit nicely into the Club's operating budget for the next three years.  Once the product arrives, Atlantic's own service team will be assisting the club in the installation.  This great new system will be up and running at the beginning of this season. 

Atlantic Selected for Rain Bird Sales Award - Second Year in a Row.

Atlantic Irrigation's Golf Division was selected for a "Top Flight" Sales Award by Rain Bird at a recent Rain Bird Awards Banquet, held during the Golf Industry Show in Orlando, Florida.  This is the second year in a row that Atlantic was selected for this prestigious award.  Atlantic was one of only five distributors nationwide that were selected for the Top Flight award this year.  This award is given to distributors that meet or exceed Rain Bird's sales goal expectations and exemplify excellence in distribution.  The acknowledgement is a testiment to all of the hard work and resulting successes that I know our whole team accomplished in 2010.  Our customers can rest easy that they are dealing with one of the Nation's top 5 Rain Bird Golf Distributors.

Atlantic Wins Bid for Round Hill Club's New System

Atlantic Irrigation will be supplying the new irrigation system for Round Hill Club in Greenwich, CT.  At time of writing, the installing contractor has not been selected.  The design for this sizable project was prepared by Irrigation Consulting, Inc. of Pepperell, Mass.  The system employs an innovative head layout which will allow Round Hill to conserve water use in times of drought and water restrictions.  The project is scheduled to commence in early August 2011 and will include a new pump station, all new pipe and fittings, nearly 1800 Rain Bird Eagle Sprinklers, with most being the new 751 model with "Full and Part in One" feature and a whole array of various landscape size sprinklers and spray heads with MP Rotator Nozzles for Bunker Irrigation.  All of these sprinklers and block zones will be controlled by a Rain Bird Cirrus Central and a total of 39 Rain Bird PAR+ES Controllers.  There is also an elaborate network of transfer lines and piping between well pumps, a city water feed, and the irrigation ponds as part of this project.  Atlantic will be supplying all of these materials as well as the irrigation components.

Sean Foley, the superintendent at Round Hill,  told us that he made his choice based on Atlantic's superior ability to service him, and his past familiarity and comfort level with Rain Bird products.  Before arriving at Round Hill, Sean worked at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester NY and Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, NY.  Both of these prestigious courses are also users of Rain Bird systems and experience the region's finest support from Atlantic.  This is an exceptionally sweet win for us since we will be replacing the Toro VP control system that Round Hill purchased just four years ago.  More updates and details will follow on this blog as the project progresses.