2017 Completed construction of LED Sports Floodlights and Fixed Light Towers at Lakewood country club

The Lakewood CC is a golf course designed by David Dale, the world’s leading golf course designer. The course is total 36holes which is divided into 6,404meters in Lake Course, and 6,470meters in Wood Course.

HISTORY / BACKGROUND

                   

We installed LED lights on the public course (Wood Course). The Wood Course consists of a combination of strategies that can be experienced at international competitions.

For that reason, from single golfers to weekend amateur golfers, all golfers can enjoy golf course and enjoy the dramatic nature. Lakewood CC is a field where Phillips MVF403 2Kw products are already installed. It is a field that can verify LED performance compared to MHN. Especially, every 9 hole has a Par5 course which is designed to attack over the big pond and then on the green, this course gives us a very impressive game. Golfers with the ability to draw and fade shots can feel a bit more special experience with Blue Tee. For that reason, it is important to outstanding lighting design of fairway and green lighting because of the nature of the long holes.

Lakewood CC runs public and membership at the same time, so you can see the LED performance is proven. The place was installed in 2017 when the High-power floodlight was not generalized in the sports industry; it shows us the advanced technology of JINWOO ELTEC.

The importance of Fairway illumination

The typical specifications for Fairway illumination are as follows below.

Lux level (horizontal): Class I =100lux, Class II=75lux

Overall Uniformity: Class I =0.5 oU, Class II =0.5 oU

Staggered lighting along the edges

Vertical illuminance at 20m height

Glare rating: 50, CRI: over 60

Note 1: Vertical illuminance at 5m above the fairway

Note 2: Semi-rough ground to be included

Note 3: not applicable over water obstacles and features

Note 4: The lighting levels stated do not relate to requirements for general course maintenance.

In general, the length of each hole is recommended within this approximate range.

Unit : meter	Par 3	Par 4	Par 5
Male	~229	230 ~ 430	430~
Female	~192	193 ~ 366	367 ~ 526

On an 18-hole golf course, there are Par3 is 4 holes, Par4 is 10holes, and Par5 is 10holes to become a total of 72 pars in 18 hole course

Therefore the illumination of the fairway is important; in case of the each hole length is long like Lakewood. Since the 7 or 8 iron shots have a vertical elevation of 20 meters or more, it is very important to plan a fairway with uniformity and vertical illumination so that the ball’s trajectory can be seen clearly.

JINWOO ELTEC is designed to reflect the field situation by a high visibility and ball-tracking lighting design so that the users can enjoy a good match in the field.

VENUE

Lakewood CC is located in Yangju, Gyunggi-do and is a prestigious golf course that operates both to the public and to those with memberships.

CHALLENGE

The first Par5 hall is 524m, the second Par4 hall is 501m which is the longest length as challenging as a long road and it is a place that needs to be designed with a focus on uniformity due to the nature of the wide fairway. Power hitter could be succeeded in hitting 2 strokes on the Green from the TEE BOX. So the well-organized lighting plan was the essential part to offer golfers crystal clear visibility from the TEE BOX.

SCOPE

For the optimal lighting plan of long distance fairways, it was designed according to uniformity to have even illumination and to focus on reducing the fairway shade.