Scott Hollister checks out Jacobsen’s new Eclipse 2 ELiTE at 2025 GCSAA Conference and Trade Show
Golfdom editor Scott Hollister visits Lee Kristensen, global product manager for Jacobsen, to check out the new Eclipse 2 ELiTE.
Transcript
Scott Hollister: Well, hi everybody. Scott Hollister with Golfdom magazine coming to you from San Diego, California, and the 2025 GCSAA Conference and Trade Show. We are here visiting our friends from Jacobson this morning and Lee Kristensen joins us, and we’ve got a new walk behind here, the Eclipse 2 ELiTE. Lee, What can you tell us about this machine?
Lee Kristensen: Yeah, thanks, Scott, yeah. So this is our Eclipse 2 ELiTE, in it’s production format. We’ve previewed it previous years, the first time we’re bringing it here. Now, ready, ready straight to go to production. We’ve had the Eclipse line of walkers for a long time, and so they’ve always been electrically driven. Previously with an engine and a generator to generate electricity as kind of a hybrid system. Now we’ve gone full lithium, taking the lithium packs from Samsung that we’ve got across our golf cars in EZ-GO and our customer utility vehicles, put a single 50 amp hour pack on there, powering the systems already existed. So it’s not really a new mower. It’s been proven in the field for seven, eight years as the Eclipse 2, with this hybrid drug train. So really it was always ready for lithium. Now I’ve taken the lithium pack on it, and that’s now obviously taken away the noise, taken away the vibration, taken away the fumes, the handling of fuel, much nicer to operate and run. And talking about runtime, with this capacity of battery, you’ve got the energy to run easily over five and a half hours, over 15 greens. I don’t think any course will want the one person want to walk 15 green for the day.
Hollister: That’d be a journey.
Kristensen: Yeah, exactly you kind of you can get to the point where you, if somebody doesn’t charge it overnight, or you charge every two days, you can do that with this if you want. You’ve got that flexibility.
Hollister: Have these been used in the field? Were these a part of the the fleets that were that did the Olympic Games, for example, where have these? Where have these been kind of tested out?
Kristensen: Sure. Yeah. So that was a big proof year. Last year in Paris, we had 21 of the units cutting the greens and cheese for the entire two weeks. So, yeah, exactly the same machines here.
Hollister: Are these available now for for superintendents who are interested in kind of stepping up their their walk behind game?
Kristensen: Absolutely, yeah. Production starts in March. For the sales team, we’re excited to get behind it, so speak to Jake reps and then get demos arranged and product out to you.
Hollister: Fantastic. Well, fascinating machine. Obviously, I think most superintendents will be familiar with this line, but taking it up a step with the battery. Lee, thank you for your time. Really, really appreciate it. This is Scott Hollister coming to you from the GCSAA Conference and Trade Show. Thanks for watching.
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