"GolfNow" starting to run its course?

[GangGreen]

I still use it as there are still a number of decent deals on a handful of area courses that make up for the fees charged.  There are still some good courses on it, but most of them are a little out of the way so it would make sense for them I suppose to still have a few heavily discounted slots to offer.

I still use it as there are still a number of decent deals on a handful of area courses that make up for the fees charged.  There are still some good courses on it, but most of them are a little out of the way so it would make sense for them I suppose to still have a few heavily discounted slots to offer.

[Dave2512]

It was a good idea that didn't work for every course. Our pro hated it because of the fees and the hot deals, it simply didn't bring in enough people to justify the expense. It was never about the end user the perks were offered as bait to drive paying customers to the courses. At the time many had archaic booking systems, some were still using tee sheets. Our course has changed systems 3x in 3 years. GN missed an opportunity to expand.

[StefanUrkel]

I don't understand them taking away the rewards program from 3-4 years ago with the Cleveland/Srixon rewards.  Cleveland/Srixon has to benefit everytime someone goes to their website and buys new stuff. Even at 10 percent off or whatever the perks were. 

[Strandly]

I haven't used GN in 3 years.  There is apparently just no course in Idaho that uses the service, but even before I stopped using it the great deals started getting much harder to find.  I'm a little surprised it's still going actually because, yeah, it looked like they were getting greedy with the fees and like courses were having a change of heart about the prices they were putting out there.

[dennyjones]

They actually called me about 3 weeks ago.    They said they had a free round for four and all I had to do was show up, play and review Golfnow and the course.   Sadly I had a prior tee time that I didn't want to relinquish.  

[Pepsivanilla93]

I tried out golfnow for about 2 weeks. The hot deals are actually some pretty good deals, too bad the courses that are listed near me are not the best quality. I'd rather set up a tee time on a courses website for full price when I know they keep their course in good shape. $8 for 18 in Detroit has me curious though...

[MuniGrit]

I will only use them if it is such a hot deal I can't pass it up. The fees are too much.

[wheresmydriver]

The tee time search procees is broken. There needs to be one site that will search all public tee times in the area.

Does anyone know the terms or processes for courses to share their tee times? Would courses share tee time info if they offered listing free?

[Valleygolfer]

5 hours ago, wheresmydriver said:

The tee time search procees is broken. There needs to be one site that will search all public tee times in the area.

Does anyone know the terms or processes for courses to share their tee times? Would courses share tee time info if they offered listing free?

This really isn't a "requirement" like you make it sound. Some clubs have their own website for their tee times. If this site was available, someone has to pay for it and it is not going to be done without profit. Most courses like control of the tee times in house. I am hoping to have member accessibility to setting tee times online at my course someday but I don't know if it will be feasible.

[NCGolfer]

Even when I wasn't a member of a course I never really considered using GolfNow.  A couple times I used a Groupon for a nice local course that was good for the year.  No commitment for a specific date.

Sounds like GolfNow's business model needs to change...or die.