Podo Country Club

The Challenge

With the interest in night golf continuing to grow rapidly throughout South Korea, leaders at Podo Country Club felt the time was right to move ahead with the installation of lights at its world-class golf course. Among the project’s top priorities were the need to prevent glare from affecting players, and ensure spill light and glare would not disrupt homes located just south of the course. Controlling spill light would be a key challenge, given the flatness of the course and its surrounding geography. Additionally, club leaders wanted golfers to have the best possible nighttime visibility and be able to track the entire path of the ball in flight.

The Solution

Project leaders at the club conducted extensive research into LED lighting systems, visiting several golf courses that had installed lighting from a variety of manufacturers. They found Musco’s Total Light Control—TLC for LED™ system far superior in terms of glare control, as well as its cut-off and ability to avoid negatively affecting neighbors with spill light. The system’s BallTracker® technology—featuring a strategically-aimed upward fixture near the base of the pole—effectively lights the underside of the golf ball in flight, creating nighttime visual acuity that other manufacturers could not match.