Golf Course Lighting Design using Dialux

Learn standards for golf course lighting design at the teeing ground, emphasizing continuous hole illumination, glare control, and uniform lighting for greens and tees with separate hole calculations.

Learn to design fairway lighting that minimizes glare by aiming floodlights toward the putting green, while meeting vertical and horizontal illumination standards and 20-meter calculation requirements.

Explore driving range lighting standards for golf courses, covering horizontal and vertical illumination, glare control, lighting techniques such as tree and side lighting, and perimeter buffer advice.

Light the putting green with dual-direction high-lumen floodlights to ensure high uniformity and reduce shadows toward the flag, using 1 m by 1 m calculation points and 50 lux targets.

Explore driving range lighting techniques, including back-of-range floodlights with high elevations for vertical illumination. Assess side lighting, berm lighting variations, and near-surface setups for uniformity, shadows, and cost.

Join golf course federations or associations to support lighting design for courses, with examples including international federation, United States Golf Association, European Golf Association, and PGA European Tour.

Lay out the initial pole locations for golf course lighting design using Dialux, accounting for safety buffer zones, road separation, and uniform 75-meter spacing for bi-directional lighting.

Separate the first hole in Dialux to run an independent lighting calculation, using polyline trimming to define a cutting area and manage pole heights and elevations.

Apply SketchUp to create soft or rigid contours for golf course lighting projects by building a sandbox, comparing control lines, and extruding contours for design integration.

Prepare greens in SketchUp for Dialux by cleaning CAD data, creating a baseline rectangle, extruding greens, and aligning them with the course tour for accurate lighting design.

Export the 3D model from SketchUp after applying textures and materials to walls and surfaces, then import into Dialux for lighting calculations.

Import the CAD file to Dialux 3.14 to set up an exterior golf course project for outdoor sports lighting design calculations and generate the project report.

Prepare the ground in Dialux by adding and editing ground elements, tracing greens, and snapping points to preview pole and floodlight locations for the report and lighting calculations.

Add and label calculation surfaces in Dialux for golf course lighting, build horizontal and vertical grids on fairways and greens, and enable real-time calculation displays.

Learn how to add or import luminaires into Dialux using catalogs or plugins. Download photometric files from brand websites, then import luminaire files and select fittings for setup.

Prepare the lighting layout for the whole golf course by transferring each hole’s design to the original drawing and adding a legend, then finalize with an Excel power specification sheet.