Case study · Golf · Troon
One Weather Command Center for the whole portfolio: every course in its own 1×1 km cell, a 60-minute strike-level forecast refreshed every 2 minutes, and a written log for every decision — from the horn relay to the tee sheet.
Flash Lightning Prediction · Weather Command Center · Flash Mobile App · Skye
“With Flash Weather AI, we’ve moved from guessing to confidently managing the weather. It’s like having a pocket weather expert, assuring our members’ safety and satisfaction.”
Troon manages a portfolio of courses under one duty of care. On most of them the lightning horn was wired to a detection feed, so it fired after the first strike inside the radius. Until then the superintendent, the pro shop and the general manager each made their own call about when to pull crews and players, and when to let play resume.
The result was inconsistency: early on some courses, late on others, and no shared record of why a course was cleared or reopened. A portfolio that size needs one trigger, one clock and one log.
One Flash Weather Command Center for the whole portfolio. Every course sits in its own 1×1 km cell with a 60-minute strike-level forecast that refreshes every 2 minutes, plus a 5-hour lightning probability for the day’s tee sheet and maintenance windows.
Roles are set per property. The general manager sees the portfolio view; the superintendent gets crew alerts by app and SMS; the pro shop gets the tee-sheet call. The all-clear timer runs from the last strike on the club’s own policy, and the relay to the on-course horns fires from the same rule, so a horn never sounds for a different reason than the app.
Decisions are made earlier and on the same trigger. Blanket closures gave way to per-course calls, because a cell forecast for one property does not clear or close another.
Every event now leaves a written log: the alert level, the time, the channel, who acted. We do not publish downtime or loss percentages for Troon; the log is the evidence.
A portfolio view for the company, bulk onboarding from a property list, and the Flash API for properties that route alerts into their own systems. A new course is a pin on the map, not a hardware install: no station, no mast, no site visit.
In September 2026 Troon named Flash a Preferred Vendor Partner. Westchester Hills Golf Club in White Plains was the first Troon facility live on the platform; its maintenance team now uses the same forecast for spray and irrigation planning. Setup took about a day.
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How it reaches superintendents
One forecast, two screens, the same call.
The general manager watches the portfolio; the superintendent and the crew carry the same cell in their pocket. Both read the same 1×1 km forecast, refreshed every 2 minutes, so a horn never sounds for a different reason than the app.
01 · Weather Command Center
The general manager
One portfolio view: every course in its own 1×1 km cell, the alert level, the time the call was made and who acted on it.
Weather Command Center
02 · Flash Mobile App
The superintendent and the crew
The same cell by app and SMS, with up to 60 minutes of strike-level lead, so mowers and members move before the horn relay fires.
Flash Mobile AppProduct imagery. Illustrative example, not live weather.
Event log · Property 0412
Illustrative example · Not live weather
Ask Flash · Skye
Skye, Flash Weather’s AI weather agent, reads the same 1×1 km cells as the portfolio map and acts in the tools Troon already runs: the Golf Genius tee sheet, the crew calendar and SMS. Every action is permissioned, logged, and confirmed by a person before a tee sheet changes.
See SkyeIllustrative example · Not live weather
Which Troon properties have a lightning Watch before Sunday’s tee times?
SKYE
Two. Property 0412 has a Watch from 07:40 to 09:10 with a first tee at 08:00, and Property 0433 has a Watch from 09:10 to 10:30 that covers its 09:12 and later groups. Both tee sheets are flagged in Golf Genius and both superintendents were texted. Every other property is clear through noon.
Scope of deployment
These are deployment facts, not outcome percentages. Flash publishes no downtime or loss figures for Troon; the per-event log is the evidence.
How up to 99.6% is scored: the accuracy method.
Trusted on the field
Named customers, named use.
TroonThis case study
Approved vendor across all 700+ Troon golf properties
Big 12
Official weather safety provider of the Big 12 Conference
Syngenta
API lightning provider
NAIA
Official weather alert system
In their words · Golf customers
“Flash Weather AI provides dependable, real-time insights and proactive alerts that give us the confidence to act quickly when conditions change.”
“I think it’s the best weather technology in the country.”
“Flash gives our teams a predictive picture rather than a reactive one, and we are pleased to make it available to Troon-managed properties through our preferred vendor program.”
“Knowing what is coming before it forms changes how we manage the golf calendar and how quickly we can get members and guests back out.”
Same standard, other sports
Flash is the official weather safety provider of the Big 12 Conference.
Official Weather Monitoring & Alert System of the NAIA through October 2028.
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In the golf press
Also presented in the Gulf States PGA Professional Development Webinar Series (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab), and heard on The ModGolf Podcast from the 2024 PGA Show (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab).
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