In October of last year, I had the great fortune and pleasure to start a three-and-a-half-month internship at Nikanti. I knew I had the opportunity to spend the Danish off-season abroad and wanted to find the best possible opportunity; one in which I was able to be around the cutting edge of golf course maintenance and to try to learn from someone not afraid to experiment and use all the information available to us as greenkeepers.

The golf course design at Nikanti Golf Club is not your typical flat course as many in the Bangkok area are. The course features significant undulations in the fairways, roughs and even some greens with large runoffs from many of the elevated greens. The irrigation system in conditions such as these requires an even higher degree of control to have the capability to adapt the application rate to meet the diverse conditions.