TurfCaddie
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The AI agronomist in your pocket.

TurfCaddie gives golf course superintendents AI disease diagnosis, per-green soil-moisture intelligence, spray records, and a 14-day agronomic forecast β€” all grounded in your course's live weather and grasses.

πŸ“Έ Photo diagnosis in ~30 sec πŸ’§ Targets per green 🧠 Learns your course

A walkthrough of every feature β€” exactly how it works from a superintendent's first tap.

Getting started

Set up your course in about two minutes.

A short, skippable setup teaches TurfCaddie everything it needs to give answers tailored to your turf β€” not generic advice.

  • Name your course & lock your weatherDrop a GPS pin or type your address β€” every forecast, soil-temp and ET reading comes from your exact spot.
  • Pick your grasses, by surfaceTap the species you manage on greens, tees, fairways and rough. Add your own if it's not listed.
  • Tell us about the courseRegion, course type, years managing turf β€” all optional, all used to sharpen advice.
  • Create your accountEmail, or one-tap with Apple or Google. You're in.
Why it matters

From your first diagnosis on, answers are grounded in your grasses, your live local weather, and your soil conditions.

Home

Your morning read on the whole course.

Open the app and the day's conditions are already there β€” pulled live for your exact location.

  • Live conditionsAir temp, humidity, wind, 24-hour rainfall, soil temperature, evapotranspiration, and hours of leaf wetness.
  • Growing Degree DaysTrack accumulation so you time growth regulators and pre-emergents to the plant, not the calendar.
  • Disease-pressure gaugeA tonight-focused risk read from overnight humidity and temperature.
  • Quick actions & the alert bellJump straight to Diagnose, Log, Scout, or Ask AI β€” and see unread alerts at a glance.
Why it matters

The judgment calls that used to need three weather apps and a soil probe are on one screen before your coffee's cold.

Diagnose

Point, shoot, and know in seconds.

Snap a photo of the symptom β€” or describe it in words if you can't. TurfCaddie returns a full agronomic workup, not just a name.

  • Capture or describeUse the camera, or tap "No camera? Describe it" and type what you see.
  • Add contextPick the hole (it pulls that green's live moisture readings into the reasoning) and add a note.
  • Choose depthFast, Balanced, or Detailed β€” Detailed searches university & USGA sources live and cites them.
  • Act on itConfidence & reasoning, severity, crew steps, product options with rates & REI, look-alikes ruled out.
Then

Mark it Correct or Incorrect, send the steps to your crew, drop it on the course map, or share it to the community.

Ask AI

A turf expert on call, 24/7.

Tank-mix compatibility, timing questions, rate conversions, ID second-opinions β€” ask in plain English and get an answer that already knows your course.

  • Ask anything"Can I tank-mix Secure with Primo this week?" β€” type it like you'd text a colleague.
  • Grounded answersResponses factor in your grasses, region, and current conditions.
  • Follow the threadKeep the conversation going to drill into specifics.
Why it matters

The 9 p.m. "should I spray tomorrow?" question no longer waits for a callback.

Soil moisture Β· the flagship

Every green managed to its own number.

TurfCaddie turns your TDR probe into a moisture program: rapid field entry, per-green targets, AI calibration, and alerts that tell you exactly what to do.

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The Moisture Walk

Walk the course with a giant keypad. Tap one of nine quadrants, punch the VWC from your probe, and it auto-advances green to green. Undo and Skip keep you moving.

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Targets per green

Each green gets its own dry, target, wet and saturated thresholds β€” in plain language. The map colors every green against its own standard, not a course average.

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Calibrate with AI

After ~14 readings, the AI studies the green's dry-down pattern and history, then suggests calibrated thresholds β€” with USGA & Penn State citations β€” to apply in one tap.

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Alerts that fix

A green drifts dry or saturated and you get an alert. Tap it and you land on that green with the action spelled out β€” hand-water now, or ease off and scout for disease.

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TDR-350 import

Already logging on a Spectrum TDR-350? Import the CSV β€” we map VWC, temperature and EC and match each plot to your greens.

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Feeds diagnosis

Moisture readings help the AI separate localized dry spot from disease, and wet wilt from drought β€” the single highest-value cross-check in the app.

Stay ahead Β· tap to fix

An alert isn't a dead end β€” it's the first step of the fix.

Every notification routes you straight to where you act on it, with the recommended action already on screen.

Notifications
Hole 1 Green is critically dry
Front is at 8% β€” below its dry limit. Hand-water before afternoon.
Tap to fix β€Ί
🚨 High disease pressure
Conditions favor disease tonight. Check before spraying.
Tap to fix β€Ί
Hole 1 Green
8% Critically dry
What to do
Below its wilt point. Hand-water now β€” before afternoon heat β€” then log a fresh reading to confirm recovery.
Log & scout

The record-keeping that used to live on a clipboard.

Spray, fertility and cultural records plus a hole-by-hole scouting map β€” fast enough to actually keep up to date.

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Spray & fertility log

Log an application in under a minute, from the field.

  • Barcode or manual product entry
  • Target pest, rate, cost, PPE & REI
  • Nitrogen tracking by lbs/1,000
  • Automatic month-to-date summary
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Course map & scouting

Build your course hole by hole, then track issues where they live.

  • One-tap course import from open map data
  • Animated satellite flyover of every hole
  • Drop issues by 1–5 severity, resolve them
  • Map, Holes, Moisture & List views
  • Diagnoses auto-pin to the map
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Schedule board

Plan the week's work and never lose a task.

  • Queue sprays & cultural practices
  • Local reminders before they're due
  • Past-due tasks jump you to the log form
Forecast & alerts

See the disease before it sees your turf.

A 14-day outlook that reads like an agronomist wrote it β€” flagging risk windows and the clean days to spray.

  • Disease-risk alertsPythium and brown-patch flags driven by overnight humidity and temperature.
  • Rain & dry-stress heads-upHeavy-rain days and dry-down stress called out before they hit.
  • Clean spray windowsThe dry days to apply β€” with a nudge to get preventives down before rain.
  • Auto-scoutingSevere risks are added to your scout list so nothing slips.
Why it matters

Preventive beats curative every time β€” this is the calendar that makes preventive possible.

Reports & community

Prove the season. Learn from the field.

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Season reports

Every application, rolled into board-ready numbers.

  • Total applications, products & cost
  • Nitrogen totals & top diseases
  • Monthly spray chart
  • Export to PDF
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Generate Plan

A forward-looking agronomic calendar from your own history.

  • Reads your records + the forecast
  • Calendar of what's coming & when
  • Preventive timing, tuned to your course
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Community

A feed built for superintendents.

  • Post photos, tips & questions
  • @mention peers & comment
  • Follow supers you trust
  • Share a diagnosis for a second opinion
Why it's different

The app gets smarter about your course every time you use it.

When you confirm or correct a diagnosis, TurfCaddie remembers it β€” tied to your grass, your location, the weather and the soil moisture at that moment. The next time similar conditions line up, that memory sharpens the answer. It's not a generic model; it's your course's institutional knowledge, working for you.

DiagnoseConfirm or correctTie to conditionsSharper next time