DEZIGNZAGolf and grounds maintenance app33.92° S 18.86° E

Operations software for ground you do not own.

TurfOps is a multi-tenant platform for golf course and grounds contractors. Dezignza designed and built all of it: the product, the field and watch apps, the brand and the marketing site.

Web platform
Field app
Apple Watch
Client portal
Brand and campaign
Marketing site

TurfOps dashboard: every site on one map of the Western Cape, coloured by status

01 · Scorecard

Nine holes from the first conversation to launch.

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Stage	Listen	Audit	Model	Design	Build	Field	Migrate	Launch	Grow
Delivered	Site visits and interviews	Existing tools mapped	Data model and access	Design system	Web platform	Field and watch apps	Legacy data moved	Self-serve sign-up	Brand and campaign

Player: Dezignza
Client: TurfOps (Pty) Ltd
Course: Cape Town, South Africa
Date: 2026

02 · The problem

Money leaks in the gap between the field and the office.

Tuesday

07:40

Hole 7

A fairway mower breaks.

Before

It gets a mention in the group chat. Weeks later it is still broken, still charged out, and nobody knows who had it last.

What we built

Fault logging from the field: a photo, a pin and a priority, owned by the workshop until it is fixed.

Ticket detail: greens mower cutting unevenly, assigned to the workshop

Month end

17:00

Site tank

The tank and the machines disagree.

Before

The site tank says one number, the machines say another, and nobody notices until the invoice arrives.

What we built

Fuel tracking that logs every fill against a machine and a name, checks tank readings against the logs and flags the gap the same week.

Fuel tank board: book level against measured level for every site tank

Thursday

10:20

Clubhouse

The inspector asks for the register.

Before

Spray records sit in notebooks and a WhatsApp group, and a lapsed applicator licence goes unnoticed.

What we built

An Act 36 register filled in as the spraying happens, weather included, with licence expiry flagged and a one-click export.

Act 36 compliance register with product, rate, area and weather per application

03 · A day on the course

From first light to lock-up, built end to end.

The platform follows the crew through a working day. Every stop below is something Dezignza designed and built.

05:30 · Sign in
The crew signs in with a PIN.
Four digits on any phone. No email, no password, and it works with no signal on the back nine.
06:15 · Greens
Hours logged as the mower runs.
Hour meters go in as machines are used, so services happen on time and not when something breaks.
07:40 · Fault
A fault, logged where it happened.
A photo, a pin and a priority, or a voice note from the wrist on Apple Watch. The workshop owns it until it is fixed.
09:10 · Fuel
Snap the slip. It fills itself in.
The phone reads the litres, the amount, the date and the garage off the slip itself, with nothing sent to the cloud. The driver checks it and saves.
11:30 · Spray
Straight into the spray register.
Product, rate, area and the weather at the moment of spraying, recorded as it happens.
14:00 · Turf
Soil readings arrive on their own.
Probes report moisture zone by zone, so the dry zone shows up before the turf does.
16:45 · Client
The client checks in.
A read-only view of their own site. They see the work being done instead of waiting for a monthly letter.
18:00 · Lock-up
Nothing retyped.
Nobody chased anyone today, and the month-end report is already one day more complete.

04 · One map

Every site, coloured by how it is doing.

Courses, estates, office parks and build sites on one map. Zoom in and the course is real: greens, fairways, tees and water drawn from proper geometry. The same four views, map, card, list and board, work from the whole portfolio down to a single hole.

TurfOps dashboard map with sites across the Western Cape and the layers panel

Course geometry: greens, fairways, bunkers and water drawn hole by hole

1RAG status on every site
2Course geometry, hole by hole
3Map, card, list and board
4Filter by division and site

05 · Modules

Switch on what fits. The price stays put.

Every module is available from day one. Turning one off shapes the menu for that team. It never changes the bill, which is per site, and field staff are free.

FuelEvery litre, every time it moves.
FleetEvery machine, where it is and who has it.
TicketsFaults pinned to the hole and given an owner.
AgronomySoil, green speed and clippings by zone.
Act 36 complianceThe spray register, ready for the inspector.
Course walksHole by hole scores with photographs.
BudgetsSpend against budget, with the reason why.
CalendarPlanned work and the zones it closes.
Client portalThe client sees the work, not a monthly letter.
AI assistantAsk it like you would ask a colleague.
Field appPIN sign-in. Works with no signal.
Apple WatchVoice faults from the wrist.

06 · Identity

A brand for contractors, not clubhouses.

TurfOps needed to look like the ground it manages, not a golf club. Forest and cream, one typeface, soft corners and a contour line that matches no real place, so no client’s course ever appears in the marketing.