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
Wildcat Golf Course, located in Shellsburg, Iowa, is an 18-hole public course designed by Mark Kerr and established in 1997. With a par of 70, it offers a challenging and enjoyable experience for golfers of all skill levels. The course spans 6,354 yards from the black tees and features a slope rating of 121 and a course rating of 70.1. Multiple tee options, including blue (5,993 yards), white (5,594 yards), and red (4,797 yards), cater to different playing abilities. The layout presents diverse hole designs, strategic bunkering, and water hazards, ensuring a well-rounded golfing experience. Beyond its well-maintained fairways and greens, Wildcat provides amenities such as a driving range, practice areas, indoor golf simulators, and banquet facilities.
Wildcat Golf Course has garnered positive feedback from golfers. GolferJake78, an avid player, praises the course's stretch from holes 5 to 9, featuring two par 5s and a driveable par 4. He also highlights the exceptional value at just $14 for walking the course. Another reviewer, also named GolferJake78, initially had reservations based on a previous experience ten years ago. However, upon revisiting, he was pleasantly surprised by the improvements, particularly the challenging and architecturally interesting back nine with its tricky greens.
While some reviewers find the front nine to be less appealing, describing it as "goofy," the overall consensus is that Wildcat Golf Course offers an enjoyable and affordable golfing experience without compromising on fun or challenge. These reviews provide valuable insights into the course's strengths and areas for potential improvement, helping golfers make informed decisions about their next round.
The Links Card echoes the positive sentiments expressed by golfers regarding the value offered by Wildcat Golf Course. The course's reasonable green fees, coupled with its well-maintained facilities and challenging layout, make it an excellent choice for golfers seeking an affordable yet enjoyable golfing experience. The variety of tee options further enhances its accessibility to players of different skill levels. While some aspects, such as the front nine's design, may not appeal to everyone, the overall value proposition of Wildcat Golf Course remains strong.
*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: 69.3/118 | 403 | 396 | 389 | 174 | 531 | 195 | 281 | 149 | 544 | 3062 | 446 | 358 | 155 | 400 | 216 | 559 | 184 | 398 | 576 | 3292 | 6354 |
| Blue M: 67.5/112 | 385 | 352 | 358 | 158 | 520 | 182 | 270 | 135 | 525 | 2885 | 427 | 343 | 143 | 364 | 196 | 538 | 172 | 370 | 555 | 3108 | 5993 |
| White M: 65.8/105 | 362 | 319 | 321 | 149 | 504 | 150 | 245 | 121 | 504 | 2675 | 410 | 333 | 140 | 338 | 180 | 505 | 153 | 339 | 521 | 2919 | 5594 |
| Red W: 65.7/104 | 284 | 266 | 249 | 140 | 472 | 120 | 182 | 113 | 412 | 2238 | 374 | 300 | 121 | 290 | 164 | 406 | 140 | 285 | 479 | 2559 | 4797 |
| Handicap | 5 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 4 |
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 70 | 6354 yards | 70.1 | 121 |
| Blue | 70 | 5993 yards | 68.2 | 120 |
| White | 70 | 5594 yards | 66.4 | 112 |
| Red (W) | 70 | 4797 yards | 70.0 | 113 |
**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.
We offer free memberships for your employees to use at other partner courses for access to the same perks available to our paying members. Your staff's cards will carry your courses' name and their name so they're identified as industry insiders.New in 2022: an unofficial industry rate program. At the request of several partner courses, we're creating a section in our listings for insider rates that are only visible and available to registered staff members. Participation by your course is optionalYour staff memberships will stay active as long as your course remains active on the platformOur 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.