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Our Mission

We provide great outdoor playing surfaces to the high value turf industry through excellence and innovation in precision subsurface soil and water management techniques.

Our History

Every day we make golf history by guaranteeing its future.

Golfers cherish the legacy of their course. That slippery putt from above the hole on a particularly tough green can be a defining feature of the course. But such cherished emblems can be very difficult to maintain when factoring in demands for perfect turf conditions from the modern-day golfer.

At XGD Systems, we use the traditional techniques fortified with an injection of technology to transform well-loved greens, approaches, bunkers, fairways and tees into high-performing, sophisticated surfaces that deliver playability and profitability in today’s turf-management systems – all while maintaining the course’s soul and character for future generations.

Take greens as an example. Greens built pre-1970 are usually important touchstones and selling points for the whole course. But they’re often push-up greens, where the rich topsoil excavated to create surrounding bunkers and approaches was “pushed-up” and contoured into a bathtub-like cavity. Those greens were great for holding water through hot, dry summers before today’s irrigation systems. But they can make life tricky for a modern-day superintendent trying to manage moisture, maintain playability and encourage healthy greens.

Over 30 years ago, soon after our parent company, TDI, started providing laser-controlled drainage installation to golf courses, we saw a need to restore these legacy greens to their original grandeur and yet make them manageable with the sophisticated technical equipment available to this generation’s superintendent.

We weren’t satisfied with the status quo.

Before we came along, the only solution was completely rebuilding to sand greens, losing the original contours. Instead, we developed a drainage installation process to surgically install 2-inch diameter drainage pipe to precise widths and depths. Through research and development we’ve perfected and trademarked our drainage installation process. We understand the business side of golf course management too. Members do not want to play to provisional greens for a full season while new greens are constructed. Our process and highly skilled staff can have a green restored and playable within two to three days. And now we take this same determination and proven track record to the rest of the course – rehabilitating holes from tee to green.

Trust only XGD to restore your tees, fairways and greens while protecting the history and significance of your course.

What our clients are saying

Oakmont chose XGD as a long-term solution after conducting thorough research into the process. It was a proven procedure and was our only option to avoid rebuilding the putting greens. The Club is now experiencing great effects from the XGD system. We are able to recover much quicker following rainfall events. Overall, we are also able to provide better quality playing conditions on a daily basis for our Members and their guests. The ability to move water through and out of the profile has also helped us to provide healthier turfgrass. We have talked to countless people regarding XGD across the country and to our knowledge, no one has reported anything but success.

John F. Zimmers, Jr. Oakmont Country Club

The installation of the XGD drainage system by Matt Magarian and his crew could not be doing a better job. They have brought playability back to portions of our 17th fairway that have been drained. We received 2″ of rain 3 weeks ago. #17 fairway typically is the last fairway to open up for cart usage. Post installation on # 17 fairway of the XGD on 8′ centers, we were able to drive carts over the entire area without leaving behind the usual tire tracks. There was NO standing water and the outfall pipe was flowing with water. It is a tremendous process. The crew has been very neat while working off of plywood the entire time. It is a process that our property has needed. I strongly recommend other golf courses that have similar wet conditions, to install your system. It works! You should be proud of your team.

Jim Colo, The Alotian Club

Glen View Club very much appreciates the expertise and dedication of your personnel during installation of the XGD subsurface drainage system on ten of our greens in April and May 2007. XGD’s team worked efficiently and in close coordination with our Superintendent, Tony Frandria, and his grounds crew with minimal disruption to member play on the golf course. Our membership was very impressed with the process and the results. The XGD system was not invasive to our greens which were ready for play a day after installation of the green drainage. More importantly, the XGD System is effective and cost efficient. We look forward to your firm returning in October to complete the project for our remaining greens.

Adrian F. KruseGlen View Club

The installation of XGD Systems to our greens, approaches, collars, and bentgrass runouts was the most significant project I have ever undertaken on the golf course, in my over 20 years as a superintendent.

John GosselinAronimink Golf Club, PA