DEACON: the golf course management system that collects all your data into one place. Measure what matters.
Offering comprehensive insights and data-gathering tools, the DEACON management system enables agronomists and superintendents to deliver better playing conditions, improved golfer satisfaction, and manage inputs efficiently.
Optimize surface performance
Use DEACON with the GS3™ ball and USGA Moisture Meter to gain a better understanding of surface playability.
Input data instantly
Record precise, daily readings instantly through the mobile app, either manually or using our available tools.
Create a digital record
Maintain historical records to review trends over time that impact usage and player experience.
Make data-driven decisions
Better management of maintenance inputs and labor.
Simplify complex data
Use charts and graphs in DEACON to understand trends and communicate within your facility.
DEACON R23 Update
Enhancements include:
Enhanced Navigation: A reimagined interface that simplifies workflows, making it easier than ever to access and utilize DEACON’s powerful tools.
Robust Reporting Tools: More intuitive reporting functionality on both web and mobile platforms, enabling users to gain deeper insights into their course operations.
Decreased Testing Time: Simplified GS3 smart golf ball tests and new USGA Moisture Meter readings on mobile, providing real-time data to support decision-making.
Improved Application Logs: Streamlined tracking of applications and nutrient management, offering greater clarity and precision in daily operations.
Advanced Jobs & Reporting: Enhanced tools for monitoring and recording job activities, enabling superintendents to correlate cultural maintenance practices and surface performance.
I think the DEACON Management system is a great product because it supplies surface performance data that's been missing in our business and provides the cause and effect of what we do agronomically with our maintenance practices. It's also a very valuable tool to communicate with the membership, show them hard data versus just feelings and impressions on the playability of the courses.
Measure What Matters
Set your target ranges for smoothness, trueness, speed, firmness, soil moisture, and other metrics that help you deliver the playability your golfers expect.
With the GS3 ball and USGA Moisture Meter, instantly capture your performance metrics into DEACON. View where your numbers are today on the performance charts and see how they match up with your targets. Performance charts are color coded to instantly tell you if you are at, above, or below target.
To get a complete picture of your course, you can also record cultural maintenance practices, applications, and other agronomic metrics by loading them into DEACON.
DEACON lets you build custom charts to understand performance trends. Also compare and correlate multiple metrics, allowing you to make data-based decisions on whether you should mow, mow and roll, top-dress, hand-water, etc.
Data conveniently in one place. Use the app for data collection and the desktop for deeper analysis.
Weather service
Monitor weather conditions on course and the impact to your maintenance plan and playing conditions.
Track how current and historical weather conditions affect maintenance practices and playing conditions.
Weather service
Weather service
Weather service
Monitor weather conditions on course and the impact to your maintenance plan and playing conditions.
Track how current and historical weather conditions affect maintenance practices and playing conditions.
Tools integration
Use the GS3 ball and USGA Moisture Meter to automatically load data into the mobile app.
Track how daily and historical data from the GS3 and USGA Moisture Meter impact maintenance practices and surface performance metrics.
Tools integration
Tools integration
Tools integration
Use the GS3 ball and USGA Moisture Meter to automatically load data into the mobile app.
Track how daily and historical data from the GS3 and USGA Moisture Meter impact maintenance practices and surface performance metrics.
Surface Maintenance Jobs Log
While evaluating course conditions, easily enter a new task and communicate with staff.
Track how daily and historical inputs, whether it’s cutting heights, rolling, mowing frequency, etc., impact surface performance metrics.
Surface Maintenance Jobs Log
Surface Maintenance Jobs Log
Surface Maintenance Jobs Log
While evaluating course conditions, easily enter a new task and communicate with staff.
Track how daily and historical inputs, whether it’s cutting heights, rolling, mowing frequency, etc., impact surface performance metrics.
Metrics Log
While evaluating course conditions, easily record metrics.
Track how daily and historical metrics, whether it's clipping yield, shear strength, visual surface condition, etc., impact surface performance.
Metrics Log
Metrics Log
Metrics Log
While evaluating course conditions, easily record metrics.
Track how daily and historical metrics, whether it's clipping yield, shear strength, visual surface condition, etc., impact surface performance.
Product Application Log
While evaluating course conditions, easily enter a new application and communicate with staff.
Track the effectiveness your applications, calendar or growing degree days, keep accurate records, and understand the impact on surface performance metrics.
Product Application Log
Product Application Log
Product Application Log
While evaluating course conditions, easily enter a new application and communicate with staff.
Track the effectiveness your applications, calendar or growing degree days, keep accurate records, and understand the impact on surface performance metrics.
Hole Location
Use your GS3 performance metrics to select the best hole location.
Using your surface performance data, select and track the hole locations that provide the best golfer experience. Whether it's a daily or championship round. Print hole location sheets.
Hole Location
Hole Location
Hole Location
Use your GS3 performance metrics to select the best hole location.
Using your surface performance data, select and track the hole locations that provide the best golfer experience. Whether it's a daily or championship round. Print hole location sheets.
Honoring a Legacy of Golf Excellence
Discover the rich heritage that fuels our commitment at the USGA.
With over a century of dedication, we are steadfast in our mission to empower golf facilities, ensuring accessible and rewarding experiences for golfers worldwide. The name "Deacon" pays tribute to the enduring legacy of Deacon Palmer, who, over his remarkable 50-year stewardship at Latrobe C.C., shaped a golf course cherished by generations. Deacon's profound influence, characterized by passion, character, and values, resonated deeply with his son, Arnold, who became a global symbol of golf's finest attributes.
Through Deacon, the USGA continues the Palmer legacy, leaving a profound impact on courses and golfers worldwide, in the same spirit of service that the Palmers embodied throughout their lifetime dedicated to the game.