The Links Card is the next evolution of a discount card.
We’re creating a network of partner courses that are using collective marketing benefits to drive traffic into hard to market slots – expiring tee times.
From members
From partner courses
Years in the business
gaps filled every year
Remember, our primary goal is to protect your brand so we encourage you to use restrictions in order to limit your offer to where you need results. That might be 24 hour advanced booking and limited to Mondays after 12pm or no limit booking 7 days a week. It's wherever you want results.
Tighter restrictions can limit traffic but it protects your brand and yields.
This is a very common question and concern for both courses and golfers. How many times can an offer be redeemed?
Because of the nature of our platform, our default is unlimited because we want to continually drive results into the time frames you need whether or not it's accomplished by the same golfer over and over. This creates a long term affect where value golfers are pushed into slots you need filled - ie, turning them into an effective yield management crowd.
However, you're welcome to limit the number of uses. Just add it as a restriction.
Once we have our restrictions set, it's time to figure out an offer to drive traffic into our desired time frames. First, consider the opportunity cost. If your tee time expires at $0, what would you wish you had sold it for?
Next consider the restrictions. If you have broad restrictions like 7 day advanced booking and good anytime then we suggest smaller savings. If you're using 24 hour advanced booking on weekdays only, we suggest a larger discount to motivate action.
We will say that the most successful offers are tighter restrictions + bigger savings.
Of course, there are plenty of other factors to consider like audience size, demographics, or even the season. Luckily, your offer isn't set in stone and you can change it anytime throughout the year.
Carts are another opportunity for win-win.
Including them can boost the effectiveness of your offer and keep your pace of play where you want it.
90% of our partner courses include them.
This is the savings off your retail rates for greens fees and cart fees, if applicable.
Not currently a partner course
Fieldstone Golf Club, located in the beautiful city of Wilmington, Delaware, is a private 18-hole course that offers a truly exceptional golfing experience. Designed by renowned golf course architects Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry in 1999, this par 71 course stretches 6,748 yards from the back tees, providing a challenging yet enjoyable layout for golfers of all skill levels.
Golfers who have had the pleasure of playing at Fieldstone Golf Club have consistently praised the course's layout, conditioning, and overall experience. One reviewer described the layout as "flawless," with not a single weak hole on the course. The outstanding par 3s and risk/reward par 4s were also highlighted, along with the top-notch conditioning of the course.
In addition to the course itself, the staff at Fieldstone Golf Club has received high marks for their friendliness and excellent customer service. Multiple reviewers mentioned their positive interactions with the club's personnel, from booking tee times to receiving assistance on the course.
The Links Card, a respected golf course rating and review platform, shares the positive sentiments expressed by golfers about Fieldstone Golf Club. They emphasize the course's great value, given its challenging and fair design, as well as its beautiful fairways and elevation changes. The Links Card also highlights the outstanding par 3s and risk/reward par 4s that add excitement to the game.
Furthermore, The Links Card commends the excellent conditioning of the course, ensuring an enjoyable playing experience for golfers of all levels. The friendly and helpful staff at Fieldstone Golf Club is also recognized, with reviewers consistently praising their exceptional customer service.
Overall, Fieldstone Golf Club offers an exceptional golfing experience that combines a challenging and rewarding layout with beautiful scenery and top-notch amenities. The positive reviews from golfers and The Links Card's perspective further solidify Fieldstone's reputation as a must-play course for golf enthusiasts in Wilmington, Delaware.
*Our information is based on reviews and descriptions from across the internet
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 73.0/145 | 442 | 579 | 182 | 354 | 530 | 184 | 347 | 183 | 443 | 3244 | 607 | 304 | 369 | 219 | 476 | 439 | 130 | 436 | 524 | 3504 | 6748 |
| Blue M: 71.0/137 | 415 | 527 | 162 | 338 | 501 | 171 | 336 | 165 | 415 | 3030 | 550 | 278 | 358 | 187 | 457 | 409 | 121 | 399 | 498 | 3257 | 6287 |
| White M: 69.4/133 W: 74.9/138 | 390 | 497 | 150 | 324 | 476 | 149 | 319 | 148 | 405 | 2858 | 527 | 251 | 343 | 166 | 439 | 383 | 102 | 362 | 473 | 3046 | 5904 |
| Yellow M: 65.7/124 W: 71.7/135 | 359 | 483 | 135 | 204 | 454 | 120 | 296 | 134 | 377 | 2562 | 494 | 220 | 296 | 140 | 344 | 359 | 91 | 333 | 453 | 2730 | 5292 |
| Red M: 63.8/122 W: 68.2/125 | 332 | 453 | 84 | 201 | 433 | 90 | 166 | 110 | 341 | 2210 | 463 | 182 | 259 | 115 | 335 | 322 | 73 | 301 | 432 | 2482 | 4692 |
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 71 | 6748 yards | 73.6 | 150 |
| Blue | 71 | 6287 yards | 71.6 | 140 |
| White | 71 | 5904 yards | 69.8 | 138 |
| White (W) | 71 | 5904 yards | 75.1 | 141 |
| Yellow | 71 | 5292 yards | 66.0 | 125 |
**We have not verified the course website. Many links are based on google search results**
Our partner courses have come to love, enjoy, and look forward to their staff memberships each year.
Our members call your proshop and identify themselves as Links Card members. When paying their greens fees, they show their membership card to your staff.
You can restrict it to a 1 time offer or allow our members to redeem it as many times as they'd like.
Most of our partner courses allow for unlimited redemption because the special offer restrictions are so beneficial yields.
We don't charge our partner courses to participate on The Links Card platform.
Our revenue comes from selling memberships to golfers to access the special offers.
We simply want you to have the systems in place to reduce $0 tee times, even if they are rare for you.
Our platform allows you to create offers that increase demand during times that you need it, even if it's as small of a window as after 2pm on Mondays.
From what we've seen, it's the time frame when chances of bookings drop drastically and the expected value of a tee time rapidly approaches $0. For most courses, it's the last 24 hours before a tee time.
24 hours if our default but you're welcome to extend your offer out to meet the needs of your course. For example, a more rural course may want to use 72 hours while a resort near a city may want to use 24 hours
Great question and you absolutely can!
It's easy enough to build out an audience of value golfers. From what we've heard from our partner courses, the more difficult and time consuming part is utilizing them without damaging your brand.
Instead of adding another set of processes to your to do list, you can leverage The Links Card and our process to increase your yields for free.
If your course is consistently booked with foursomes and zero gaps, we congratulate you!
The Links Card is a platform that let's you put systems in place to reduce $0 tee times, even if they are rare for you.