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
Willows Run Golf Club in Redmond, Washington, offers golfers a diverse golfing experience with its four courses. Among these courses, Coyote Creek stands out as a par-72 championship layout designed by Ted Locke and established in 1999. Measuring 6,344 yards from the back tees, this course features a classic links design that caters to golfers of all skill levels. While predominantly straightforward, the course presents challenges such as strategically placed bunkers and water hazards on almost every hole. Despite the flat terrain, which makes it ideal for walking, beginners will find this course approachable, while the nine-hole par-3 course and 18-hole putting course provide shorter rounds and practice opportunities for new players. With its scenic views and well-maintained greens, Willows Run Golf Club – Coyote Creek Course promises an enjoyable golfing experience.
Player reviews for Willows Run Golf Club – Coyote Creek Course in Redmond, Washington, offer a diverse range of opinions on the course conditions. Some reviewers express dissatisfaction, describing experiences such as "slogging through the mud" and encountering poorly maintained fairways that make finding lost balls challenging. However, positive comments highlight the course's layout and the friendly nature of the staff. One reviewer notes that despite some wear and tear on the greens, the overall condition of the course is satisfactory, especially considering the time of day. Reviewers also provide average or positive ratings for aspects such as pace of play, amenities, value for money, and difficulty level. While there are concerns about certain aspects of the course's conditions, players generally appreciate its layout and the friendly staff.
Willows Run Golf Club – Coyote Creek Course in Redmond, Washington, offers a mixed experience for golfers. As a publicly accessible course, it features a classic links design that presents both straightforward holes and challenges. Water hazards and strategically placed bunkers and rough test players' skills. While some reviewers express concerns about course conditions, such as muddy fairways and poorly maintained grass, others note that the overall condition is acceptable, especially considering the time of day.
One consistent positive aspect mentioned by reviewers is the friendly and helpful staff. Additionally, aspects such as pace of play and amenities offered at Willows Run Golf Club – Coyote Creek Course are rated average or better. Despite some concerns about course conditions, the course's layout and attentive staff contribute positively to its value as an accessible public golfing option in Redmond.
*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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue M: 69.0/115 W: 74.5/127 | 365 | 531 | 367 | 374 | 183 | 335 | 317 | 466 | 132 | 3070 | 505 | 373 | 374 | 137 | 322 | 360 | 303 | 143 | 496 | 3013 | 6083 |
| Combo M: 67.1/113 W: 72.7/123 | 365 | 495 | 346 | 346 | 150 | 335 | 317 | 448 | 132 | 2934 | 483 | 373 | 304 | 137 | 293 | 322 | 303 | 143 | 489 | 2847 | 5781 |
| White M: 66.2/110 W: 71.7/122 | 327 | 495 | 346 | 346 | 150 | 314 | 290 | 448 | 113 | 2829 | 483 | 340 | 304 | 122 | 293 | 322 | 283 | 120 | 489 | 2756 | 5585 |
| Yellow M: 63.8/102 W: 68.6/114 | 272 | 460 | 311 | 318 | 119 | 265 | 260 | 420 | 86 | 2511 | 436 | 318 | 288 | 87 | 278 | 304 | 243 | 107 | 450 | 2511 | 5022 |
| Handicap | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 14 | 12 |
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 72 | 6344 yards | 70.8 | 120 |
| White | 72 | 5796 yards | 68.2 | 113 |
| Green | 72 | 5399 yards | 65.9 | 109 |
**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.