Does your club do internet booking.

My club does internet booking, or rather is using the service of an internet booking provider that can be implemented in the club homepage.

Booking can be done for the same day and up to 2 days in advance. Through the service you can see all available (and already booked) tee times, so you can chose the time that suits you best. You can also see if it the course is already fully booked or if there's still some tee times left.

If other members also have an account and opted to have their names displayed you can also see if somebody you know booked a tee time and with who you'd like to play.

You can also book via phone or just turn up and see if there are any tee times left.


I couldn't imagine playing at a place where you just turn up and don't know if/for how long you have to queue before you can tee off.
But then again my fellow countrymen are notorious for putting towels on the sunbeds by the pool before breakfast... ;)
 
backwoodsman said:
We don't have it. Turn up & play. Seems to suit us.

A genuine question...

How does on-line booking work for your swindle/roll-up/geedy or whatever you call it. We turn up and there may be 10, 20, possibly 30 or more of us. We do the draw to see who we're playing with then head off to the 8th & 13th tees (the official starting places for 3 & 4 balls at that time). How would we book enough times to accommodate our need on the day when we don't know how many there will be until the day?
(Not against it per se, but don't see how it would work for us?0)
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Roll up runs between 9.30 and 11.00 so you just put your name down in a slot on line and then turn up at 9.20 for draw, never any wasted tees as always fully subscribed in the Summer and then in winter first time moves to around 9.50
 
We don't have any internet bookings, for comps it's done manually in the pro shop. It all works pretty well
 
We have been on internet booking for last season or two. Been taken up by most members tho still a few that like to phone in to book.

I guess it's like a super market some people like to use self check outs and others like go to tills were there is a person
 
Cooden has internet booking and it is fantastic. Simplicity itself.
One of the main reasons I left Highwoods was due to their antiquated arrangements.
Too many groups and little "cliques" within the club that it was impossible to arrange a friendly knock on a Sunday morning.
 
Couldn't imagine turning up for a game of golf without having a start time booked, the alternative sounds like a recipe for folk to complain how long it takes to play the game

I'm sure some clubs are so wealthy they don't need to market their unused availability but even then members subs could be reduced if X number of guests paid to play

Cant imagine too many successful hotels, restaurants etc operating a 'turn up and we'll fit you in' approach (well maybe McDonalds) and surely the club isn't just catering for a game of golf, they would like folk to be in the restaurant/bar etc so staff and consumables need to be ordered/managed and no tee-booking means either waste or running out (or microwaved frozen fayre)

Sounds pretty amateurish to be honest
 
Clubs that don't do internet booking for tees aren't amatuer or behind the times etc - they do it to satisfy their membership

We use HDID to book comp times

Beyond that people turn up and play when they wish - it's the way the members want to be.

We are a club full of swindles and roll ups with one or two every day plus about 5 on a sat and Sunday

The members know they can turn up and join in at any time throughout the week

We have an active playing membership and the course has the right amount of traffic on it

We have discussed a booking system but the members don't want it and there is no need for it.
 
We have a start sheet on a Sunday morning, nothing else, it's worked for years and I have never queued at any time on the first tee, so hopefully we don't need an Internet booking system.
 
My home club has a nice balance.

For non-comp days there are certain slots (around 2-3 per hour) you can book online. The rest are just for those who wish to roll up. So, when I know I'll be pushed for time, I use the internet booking service, knowing that if there's a huge queue at the first tee, that I can, with confidence, say to waiting members that I have a time booked.

My away club is a lot more quiet and doesn't really need this facility, but it's a huge sports complex, so reception is manned at all times where I can phone up and get a time.

Can't remember the last time I played at either club without having a time booked. Have been stung a few times early on this year where I've driven up to find the course fully booked or another comp on.
 
Our club does not give out tee times (except for competitions or larger green fee groups). You just show up on the first tee. In case that there is a queue (which normally only happens on Saturday and Sunday mornings when the weather is good), there is a metal spiral that you throw a ball in. The order of the balls determines who goes first (Germans are notoriously bad at queueing ... ). But I have rarely seen more than two or at the most three balls in there at once, so the waiting time is acceptable on most days.

No online registration for competitions either. You have to register by phone or email or, very old fashionedly, by showing up in person and writing your name on a list.
 
My old club didn't and would never consider it. My current one does and I would not join one again that did not. Too much time wasted waiting to tee off, 6 x 3 balls in front of you. Ridiculous. Now I book, I know what time I will play, what time I need to be there for, no time wasted.

It was the oldies who were against it at my old club. No to progress was their answer to most things and why it is slowly dying.
 
Don't think I have ever waited by behind 6 groups of people waiting to tee off - when big groups are on the tee it's because they are all part of the roll up
 
We have an internet/phone/in person booking system for every tee slot. With so many visitors and such high demand for tee times from members it could not really work any other way. System suits me fine.
 
For those don't have booking system. What happens when two swindles turn up at 9am both groups with 20 players in each?

Surely there is lots of waiting around.
 
BTatHome said:
For those don't have booking system. What happens when two swindles turn up at 9am both groups with 20 players in each?

Surely there is lots of waiting around.
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One goes off the tenth tee or they join together which what has happened

The swindles all seem to have found their own natural time especially at weekends
 
Liverpoolphil said:
For comps only

After that just turn up and play - works well for our members
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Same as us. We ran a 3 month pilot this summer of extending the booking system to Saturday and Sunday mornings casual play; with a view to extending it to enable visitors to more easily book rounds and for situations such as the OPs.

But a vote of the members on this in September rejected the pilot - so back to turn up and join the queue. The club will accept tee bookings by visitors for times outside of timeslots popular with members. But as a visitor you won't know when that might be until you phone up.

Mean reason given for rejecting was that the club has a strong tradition of turn up and play with whoever is about; regular random drawn roll-ups and use of these to encourage and support integration of new members into the club and with the membership.

We don't like the idea of say a group of guys joining from another club, sticking in their group and so not mixing

Our internet booking and results system works well for comps.
 
With a large group (I think it is 10 players or more) you can book ahead and they will put information up on our noticeboard (both online and at the course) that the tee is blocked for that time. In those cases other players will be allowed to tee off at the 10th instead if there ist room. That normally works out quite well.
 
BTatHome said:
sounds a lot like the swindles have 'booked' their slots but without the formality of a booking system.
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The swindles all turn up at the same time every week but always a gap in between so people who don't want to play with them are still able to go off - the size of the swindles are max 20 if everyone turns up but it seems to work very well - people seem to find a slot to play throughout the weekend

We do have an issue at the moment with people not happy about being unable to play social golf more regualry due to comps at weekend
 
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