Golf Clubs: Just what are you thinking???
November 20, 2018
Education City Golf Club chooses CourseMate for their club app
January 30, 2019Golf Club App Makes Top 200 On iOS Store
Golf Club App Makes Top 200 On iOS Store
CourseMate’s Club App For Wingate Golf & Country Club Gets In The Top 200 On iOS Store
CourseMate creates personalised club apps for golfing venues across the world allowing clubs to communicate, engage and market to their members and visitors alike.Each app is created for the club in mind allowing their venue to cater to their individual requirements from giving the complete personalised member experience for the private members clubs to generating multiple points of revenue for resorts, country clubs and those venues that offer extra facilities.
Reaching number 196 on the iOS store, Wingate Park and Country Club’s CourseMate Golf Club App is true testimony to just how great it performs for the club and well received the app is by their members.
Direct, timely communication has proven key to this top 50 South African club app’s success. CourseMate comes with free, unlimited push notifications and transforms communication to your members – each club chooses how it would like to engage.
Many private member clubs focus upon today’s course status and informing members of this week’s upcoming social events, some like Wingate, also wish their members happy birthday providing their members with useful, meaningful updates and that personal touch. Whereas more commercially minded clubs increase their revenues by sending out latest offers, last minute green deals and upcoming social events and opens.
As well as giving members valued course information, venues that are more commercially oriented focus their free push notifications on communicating the latest promotions, upcoming events, coaching and cross promoting other aspects including dining, health facilities, etc.
Wingate successfully use CourseMate’s club promotion section and tied push notifications to increase revenues with this month’s clubhouse food and beverage special, and improve participation by cross promoting other aspects of their club.
Wingate successfully use CourseMate’s club promotion section and tied push notifications to increase revenues with this month’s clubhouse food and beverage special, and improve participation by cross promoting other aspects of their club.
Other great features of CourseMate Golf Club App that both Wingate and their members can take advantage of include:
> Centralising the clubs’ online reservations – for example, member and/or visitor tee bookings, accommodation, coaching, restaurant reservations, etc – all in one place making it easy to access, easy to book.
> Allows the club’s members instant access to their personal online accounts by being able to link directly into the venue’s member software. This allows the making topping up their accounts, checking their handicap or seeing the latest club results quick and easy.
> Effortlessly grows club's marketing database by collect visitor names and email addresses - especially useful on corporate days and to capture all the guests and not just the "lead booker"
> Aiding members and guests out on the course with settable GPS and scorecards that calculate their matches and allow them to share their results. They can even play tournaments in real-time with a true live scoring that does not require the club to have WIFI out on the course.
> Centralising the clubs’ online reservations – for example, member and/or visitor tee bookings, accommodation, coaching, restaurant reservations, etc – all in one place making it easy to access, easy to book.
> Allows the club’s members instant access to their personal online accounts by being able to link directly into the venue’s member software. This allows the making topping up their accounts, checking their handicap or seeing the latest club results quick and easy.
> Effortlessly grows club's marketing database by collect visitor names and email addresses - especially useful on corporate days and to capture all the guests and not just the "lead booker"
> Aiding members and guests out on the course with settable GPS and scorecards that calculate their matches and allow them to share their results. They can even play tournaments in real-time with a true live scoring that does not require the club to have WIFI out on the course.
Great rate of Retention
The popularity of their App is matched by the frequency of views and how often their members return to the app on a weekly basis. In the sports industry retention rate (ave) is just 23%, Wingate, like other CourseMate apps, are in the high 70's! With great feedback from both the facility and players, Wingate are looking to add additional features to their app over the coming season to improve their service to their members.For further information about how your club could own its own CourseMate app and improve member communication and engagement please fill out the short form below:
