Booking your tee times online…
In recent years there has been a real sea change in the way golfers go about golf tee time booking.
It doesn’t seem so long ago that if you wanted to play golf and were not a member of club, when you would have to turn to your yellow pages, find the local golf club telephone number, call the Pro shop and hope they have your preferred tee time available and they would accept your request to play.
Forward to the present day and this seems now like a prehistoric way to get your golf orgnaised. Indeed there is now a plethora of websites available whereby you can book a tee time, receive a confirmation and receive rewards the more tee times you book within a few seconds.
However, this has led to some clubs to being dragged into a ‘race to the bottom of the barrel’, whereby some club have gotten into a price war, great for consumer but not necessarily good for the industry in the long term.Indeed, some clubs have dropped their rates so far they are now struggling to make ends meet, but as with all things these days, ‘the market will decide’.
So which are the best way to book your tee times online?
Of course, like all things on the web, there is good and bad. The first and arguably most popular tee time booking website is GolfNow (formerly TeeOffTimes.co.uk) owned by the Golf Channel, closely followed by Teetimes.co.uk One thing to consider when using one of these systems is that they do not all offer the same tee times at the same clubs. Just like the Price Comparison sites for energy or mortgages, you may have to visit a few different sites, prior to making your decision where to play and making your booking.Golf Now offers tee time booking at over 6,000 golf courses in London, South East and worldwide.
Are there other ways of booking tee times online?
Firstly, in a bid to play ‘catch up’ many clubs have now added direct tee time booking services to their own websites. In addition, there is also alternative ways for you to reduce the cost of your green fees.At the same time as technology has forced many to trawl the internet for a good bargain, green fee deals sites such as Golf Deals Group, 2fore1 (offer discount vouchers) have also become popular with even GroupOn getting in on the act.However, using this route, will require you making the tee time booking with the club in the traditional way.
