Consistent Course Conditions Without Adding Staff
A missed mowing cycle on the front nine gets remembered much longer than all the weeks everything looked right, especially when it happens because your crew is short a person. That's a problem when members are constantly comparing your course to the club up the road or to how it looked the day they joined.
The Kress RTKn™ line of autonomous robotic mowers for golf courses solves all of that, keeping fairways, roughs, driving ranges, and practice areas on schedule whether or not you have a full crew. Cutting runs on the program and boundaries you set, so your team can focus on the greens, bunkers, and the conditioning work only a person can do.
The Kress RTKn Platform
Your course layouts change every time bunkers get rebuilt, tee boxes move, or cart paths get rerouted. Robotic mowing systems that use boundary wires just aren't practical when you're managing shifting conditions.
That's why Kress' RTKn mowers use a real-time kinematic correction network with satellite positioning accurate to a few centimeters. To reroute your mower's course, simply change the map in an app instead of re-trenching turf mid-season to move buried wires.
Every model also includes an Obstacle Avoidance System (OAS) that detects sprinkler heads, cart paths, bunker edges, and other fixed course features and adjusts around them automatically. You can monitor the status of every mower on the course from one dashboard instead of walking the property to check on each unit.
Check out the models best suited for golf course maintenance below:
Benefits
- Right-sized for practice areas and secondary turf, so the investment matches the acreage instead of oversizing it
- Automatic hazard navigation keeps mowing moving without someone watching for sprinkler heads or cart paths
- Handles the rolling grades common around greens surrounds and fairway edges
- Adds units one at a time as a fleet grows, without replacing the model already in the ground
- Frequent, light cuts produce fine clippings that return nutrients to the soil
KR233
The KR233 is the entry point into a Kress golf fleet, sized for practice facilities, driving ranges, and the secondary turf around a course rather than full fairway acreage. Courses building an autonomous mowing program one section at a time typically start here and add units as the program proves out.
- Covers full fairway-scale acreage per unit, without stepping up to a larger model than the acreage calls for
- Dual-disc cutting keeps clipping quality consistent across wider passes
- Recovered braking energy extends the mowing window between charges
- The KR236S holds its line on grades and turf conditions where a standard drivetrain would lose traction
KR236 and KR236S
The KR236 is built for fairway-scale acreage, with the cutting width and blade configuration to run at that scale efficiently.
The KR236S carries the same capacity with added traction for courses whose terrain or turf conditions work a standard drivetrain harder, through upgraded drive motors and V-Wheel traction wheels.
Benefits
- Covers the largest contiguous fairway acreage with fewer total units than smaller models require
- Built for fairway turf specifically, rather than general-purpose acreage
- Scales into a full fairway-wide fleet as course-wide programs grow
- Holds an even cut across the rolling grades common to contoured fairways, without a crew adjusting for slope by hand
KR237
The KR237 is engineered specifically for fairway turf and carries the highest per-unit capacity below the MasterSeries line. Courses with large contiguous fairway acreage, or a fleet that needs to cover more ground per unit, run this model to keep the total unit count down.
Most courses running the KR237 pair it with smaller models for practice areas and secondary turf, coordinating the full program from the same fleet app instead of managing each model separately.
Benefits
- Height precision holds up across fairways and roughs to meet the standard member play demands
- Multi-sensor obstacle detection keeps the mower operating safely around golfers, carts, and course furniture
- Terrain-following decks maintain an even cut across the rolling grades typical of golf course design
- Large-scale capacity in a single model reduces the total number of units a large course needs to manage
- Fleet visibility from a phone or tablet keeps a superintendent informed
- Weather-resistant construction keeps the mower running through the moisture golf turf regularly sees
KR238G MasterSeries
The KR238G MasterSeries is Kress's flagship model, built for full-course conditioning at the level members expect from championship-quality surfaces. It runs the largest capacity in the lineup and pairs it with a navigation and safety stack built for operating around golfers, carts, and course traffic without constant supervision.
Height control holds to plus or minus 1 millimeter in increments down to 0.4 inch, and terrain-following decks adjust to ground contour in real time rather than cutting to a fixed height across rolling grades. Navigation runs on tri-camera AI vision paired with time-of-flight, ultrasonic, and bump sensors, backed by V-SLAM positioning and MAP path planning for full-course routing.
Why Golf Courses Are Choosing Kress Robotic Mowers
Course budgets keep tightening while skilled labor gets harder to find and keep, especially for the routine mowing hours that eat into a maintenance crew's day. That time goes instead toward irrigation system maintenance, bunker preparation, tree and landscape care, turf repair, equipment maintenance, and tournament or event setup.
Golf courses running Kress robotic mowers stop needing to recruit and train a seasonal mower operator every year. Kress engineers each model specifically for commercial turf operations at golf-course scale, and superintendents keep adding units as their programs grow.
Frequently Asked Questions
A Kress golf course mower is a robotic mower built on Kress's RTKn™ satellite positioning platform, sized and equipped for fairway, rough, and practice-area turf rather than residential lawns. Models range from the KR233 through the full-course KR238G MasterSeries.
No. Kress robotic mowers are built for fairways, roughs, driving ranges, practice facilities, clubhouse grounds, perimeter landscaping, and out-of-play turf. Putting greens still need dedicated precision equipment and hands-on staff attention.
That depends on total acreage, terrain, and how the course is laid out. Green Industries walks the property and sizes a fleet during the course evaluation, rather than quoting a unit count before seeing the layout.
Every model includes an Obstacle Avoidance System that detects fixed and moving obstacles and adjusts around them automatically. The KR238G MasterSeries adds tri-camera AI vision with time-of-flight, ultrasonic, and bump sensors for additional detection range.
Green Industries, as your local Kress golf course mower dealer, handles installation, calibration, staff training, and ongoing service for golf properties across the Annapolis area and throughout Maryland.
Why Green Industries?
Course conditions are what members remember, and every equipment decision affects your budget as much as how the property looks. Green Industries brings hands-on experience supporting golf course operations across Maryland, from private clubs to daily-fee courses, with the Kress golf course mower fleet built to keep fairways and roughs in shape year-round.
We Understand Golf Course Operations: Our team knows the demands of maintaining premium playing conditions while managing labor, budgets, and member expectations.
Kress, Selected for Fairway-Scale Turf: Green Industries is a local Kress dealer for golf courses across Maryland, carrying the KR233 through the full-course KR238G MasterSeries, the models Kress builds specifically for golf course turf rather than a general commercial lineup.
Personalized Fleet Sizing, No Guesswork: We'll walk your acreage and size a fleet to your fairways, roughs, and practice areas before recommending a model, so every unit count and coverage decision is based on your actual layout.
Support That Goes Beyond the Sale: Installation and calibration happen during your shoulder season, and our in-house service team keeps blade replacement and routine inspection on schedule once the season starts.
Autonomous Fleet Transition Guidance: Green Industries phases the move from a gas mowing crew to a Kress fleet section by section, so your program and your budget adjust at a pace that works for your course.
Ready to Bring Kress Robotic Mowers to Your Course?
Connect with Green Industries to walk your course, size the right fleet of Kress robotic mowers for every acre you maintain, and plan installation around your season.