no Galway courses on teetime.ie

Guffy

What's that about?

PARlance

Antrim
Armagh
Derry
Down
Fermanagh
Galway
Leitrim
Monaghan
Roscommon
Sligo
Tyrone

Quite a few counties missing from it.

It's a business, if Clubs in those counties don't want to use it, then there's nothing tee times can do about it.

Guffy

O I get that.... Just a little shocked that the courses are so busy they don't see this as a valuable tool.

PARlance

gufc21 wrote: »

O I get that.... Just a little shocked that the courses are so busy they don't see this as a valuable tool.

If you look at the list of courses available in Dublin, the majority of them are public courses or courses that have a relatively low membership base.
You won't find many courses in Dublin with a strong membership base on the site.

Galway, afaik, would be made up of fairly strong members clubs. Their main revenue stream (annual subs), the one they can rely on, needs to be protected.
Offering discounted slots on the time-sheet that get snapped up in place of a member who might fancy a game could be very damaging to the club.

Unglika Norse

No doubt somone will correct this if it's wrong but as far as I am aware. Golf Clubs advertise on teetimes.ie the payment for the add is or at least it used to be tee times. Teetimes.ie themselves sell the tee times at the rates they see fit to recompence for the advert. If a club has no need to advertise or promote itself as a featured course on teetimes.ie it dosn't need to give away tee slots which are sold cheaply.

PARlance

Unglika Norse wrote: »

No doubt somone will correct this if it's wrong but as far as I am aware. Golf Clubs advertise on teetimes.ie the payment for the add is or at least it used to be tee times. Teetimes.ie themselves sell the tee times at the rates they see fit to recompence for the advert. If a club has no need to advertise or promote itself as a featured course on teetimes.ie it dosn't need to give away tee slots which are sold cheaply.

Don't know for certain but I can't really see that system working out.
It seems fairly clear that the clubs set specific discounts on the site.

There are no "reduce to clear" discounts that would suggest teetimes had to cash in on the slot as a form of payment
I.e you could log on at 10am and see a slot for 10:20am with a 20% discount. Try book the same time, same club for 3 weeks in advance and you'd get the same 20%.

I assumed they were like most reference sites and got a % cut of each tee time they sold.

I may be wrong too btw

goodgolfer64

got a mobile phone?

The Guardian

see the temptster app
would work for golf too

a course looks like its gonna have a quiet weekend, stick some slots up at half price
a course gets a late cancellation, stick some slots up at 25% of the usual rate (while also keeping the cancellation fee )
etc etc

this is the future
perfectly translatable to golf

The Guardian

btw, teetimes.ie seems to be pretty crap at the minute
only the real rubbish courses using it (mostly - the odd gem here and there, Headfort etc)

thats surprising. woulda thought there'd be a stack of availability in feb / mar

brick tamland

The Guardian wrote: »

btw, teetimes.ie seems to be pretty crap at the minute
only the real rubbish courses using it (mostly - the odd gem here and there, Headfort etc)

thats surprising. woulda thought there'd be a stack of availability in feb / mar

Seems to be more choice on golfnow.ie sometimes. I think a few clubs have moved to that site